On Mar 15, 3:10 pm, Casey Webster <casey...@gmail.com> wrote: > The example you give does have fairly obvious logic. But how does it > handle Feb 28th, 2009 + 3 months? To me, there are two "obvious" > answers: May 28th, 2009 or May 31st, 2009. The question is intent; is > Feb 28th an arbitrary day of the month, or is it the last day of the > month, which for something like a monthly bill reminder is more likely?
In my experience, unless there is explicit verbiage that says "last day of the month", the day of the month is always retained except where it would result in an invalid date. (So May 28 in your example.) I sympathize with anyone who considers "lay person date math" ugly and not always logical, in a mathematician's sense of logic. But the fact of the matter is that LPDM is quite well established and not very ambiguous at all. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
