In article <roy-c75465.16270015032...@news.panix.com>, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >In article <mailman.1915.1237140862.11746.python-l...@python.org>, > Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> >> Besides your behavior, one could equally well argue that a 31st repeat >> on months without a 31st should just be dropped, or that it should >> carry over onto the 1st of the next month (ignoring the complications >> of February). Which behavior one needs is completely >> context-dependent. > >Indeed. For example, my wife started her current job on a Feb 29th. There >are significant financial events that happen on various anniversaries of >her employment (vesting of stock and retirement benefits). It really is >important that everybody know exactly what is meant by "10 years from Feb >29th, on a given year", and what it means in one context may not mean what >it means in another.
Because I'm well-aware of such issues, I would have asked to make my official start date March 1. ;-) -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Adopt A Process -- stop killing all your children! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
