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Re: Date and Time - Functions-Bug!?

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  • Subject: [mg45127] Re: Date and Time - Functions-Bug!?
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:54:42 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 12/16/03 at 6:21 AM, Kastens at Hamburg.BAW.DE (Marko Kastens) wrote:

> Here is something mysterious:
 
> ogrenze = FromDate[{2000, 30, 10, 23, 59, 59}]
                            ^^
> --> 3233692799

> ToDate[ogrenze]
> -->{2002, 6, 21, 23, 59, 59}
 
> Æ?hm, 2002=2000 ...??? 

No, but 2000 + 30 months = 2002

> Is this only on my computer? Why? 

Because you asked Mathematica to compute a date 30 months, 10 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds after the start of year 2000
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