[Koha-devel] Undocumented Behaviour in C4::Dates

[Colin Campbell]

On 04/05/11 13:37, Owen Leonard wrote:
>> If you look at the output from
>> t/Dates.t creating a date with 0/1/1952 (I'm using dmy here) returns a
>> formatted version of 31/12/1951. i.e. ) has a "kind of -1" effect
>>
>> Odd? Confused? Poor Interface?
> 
> Does it take negative numbers too? -3/1/1952? If it works consistently
> and correctly I would say it's a feature: It lets you do simple math
> on a day of the month and get back a valid date.
No that just causes it to abort and log Invalid date instead of putting
out an unpredicted date and logging Invalid Date...
and if I wanted to do date math I'd not do it with C4::Dates....

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