On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:27:01 -0400, 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.
Remember Frederic, in Pirates of Penzance, who was apprenticed to a pirate until his twenty-first birthday, but was born on Feb 29? -- To email me, substitute nowhere->spamcop, invalid->net. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
