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

[Chris Rebert]

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.

Cheers,
Chris
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