mxDateTime history (Re: mktime, how to handle dates before 01-01-1970 ?)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>>>>>>> greg <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> (g) wrote:
>>
>>> g> MRAB wrote:
>>>>> And when someone says "January 30", do they really mean the day before
>>>>> the last day of the month?
>>
>>> g> No, no, that's January -2, a *completely* different thing!
>>
>> But for someone else it would be February -2.
> 
> And for still others, it's the last $DAYOFWEEK of the month, which
> just happened to fall on the 30th.

That's a little more complicated:

>>> mx.DateTime.DateTime(2009, 1, 31).day_of_week
5
>>> # which is a ...
>>> mx.DateTime.Weekday[mx.DateTime.DateTime(2009, 1, 31).day_of_week]
'Saturday'

Now:

>>> # "next month, last Saturday"
>>> mx.DateTime.DateTime(2009, 1, 31) + mx.DateTime.RelativeDateTime(months=+1, day=1, weekday=(5, -1))
<mx.DateTime.DateTime object for '2009-02-28 00:00:00.00' at 2ba43f93ebe0>

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