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On 2012-05-21, Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> wrote:
>      Like months in JavaScript dates.  They are numbered 0-11, even in
> output.  It definitely holds the record with me for the stupidest bit
> of language design I have ever seen.

This might be deliberately compatible with the "tm_mon" field in the ISO C
"struct tm" type.

In its defence, it *is* apologetically called "broken down" time. :)

I may just repeat this mistake in the TXR language, because the impelmentation
language C, and doing it differently means inventing another way of
representing time, just for the heck of it, and then converting back and forth.