On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <mailman.1910.1237139217.11746.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > >> Which makes some sense considering a month can range from 28-31 days, >> which would make the delta oddly fuzzy. > > BTW, what date is "One month after August 10, 1752"? Extra points if you > refuse the answer the question on the grounds that it's incompletely > specified :-)
Not that that date could even be represented by most programs since it's before 1970. Talk about recentism! :-) I've always wondered how historians using computers deal with that limitation... Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
