Re: 3 Months Ago?

["Captain Jerry" <captainjerry@xxxxxxxxx>]

No Booth,  I think I remember reading something in the manual's %Months BIF
that it won't remember that you started from March 31st.  Not the computer's
fault... I guess we could always blame Aloysius Lilius!  LOL

CJ


On 5/17/07, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What bothers me is that dates don't round trip well.   Does March 31st
> less one month, plus one month, equal March 31st?
>
> Wilt, Charles wrote:
> > RTFM....
> >
> > "When subtracting a duration in months from a date, the general rule is
> that the
> > month portion is decreased by the number of months in the duration, and
> the day
> > portion is unchanged. The exception to this is when the resulting day
> portion
> > would exceed the actual number of days in the resulting month. In this
> case, the
> > resulting day portion is adjusted to the actual month end date."
> >
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