[Zope3-dev] Dates and times

[Christian Zagrodnick]

date says this:

% date -d '2000-01-31 + 1 month'
Thu Mar  2 00:00:00 CET 2000



On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:05:17PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Marius Gedminas]
> > ...
> > BTW, regarding INTERVALs: PostgreSQL allows one to specify a number of
> > months in an interval, and expressions like date 'YYYY-MM-DD' + interval
> > '1 month' return the same DD on the next month.
> 
> What's the value of
> 
>     2000-01-31 + 1 month
> 
> ?  The last day of February?  If so, is
> 
>     (2000-01-31 + 1 month) - 1 month
> 
> then 2000-01-29?

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