Re: Bug in FromDate
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg49130] Re: [mg48903] Bug in FromDate
- From: "Sébastien de Menten" <sdementen at hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 02:01:35 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
>>>I am using FromDate with arguments outside the usual scope but don't
>get any sensible result.
>
>Why should you?
>
Because sometimes it may be quite handy to be able to say: the date 20
months after the day d with just ToDate[FromDate[d + {0,20,0,0,0,0}]].
In fact, this is the behaviour of the mktime function of the standard C
library (allow any range in the different time fields year, month,etc and
normalise them in mktime).
>>>I am using FromDate with arguments outside the usual scope but don't
>get any sensible result.
>
>Why should you?
>
>Bobby
>
>On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:32:21 -0400 (EDT), Sebastien de Menten
><sdementen at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am using FromDate with arguments outside the usual scope but don't
>>get any sensible result.
>>
>>The first example is OK:
>>ToDate[FromDate[{2004,14,1,0,0,0}]] -> {2005,2,1,0,0,0}
>>
>>While the second is wrong:
>>ToDate[FromDate[{2004,15,1,0,0,0}]] -> {2005,3,4,0,0,0} instead of
>>{2005,3,1,0,0,0}
>>
>>Does anybody know the expected behaviour of FromDate ?
>>
>>TX
>>Seb
>>
>>
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>
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