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Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail!

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In comp.software.year-2000 message <jjrfcp$njt$1@reader1.panix.com>,
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:07:37, docdwarf@panix.com posted:

>In article <Nhv8BBNn2QYPFwEN@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid>,
>Dr J R Stockton  <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> wrote:
>>In comp.software.year-2000 message <jjm846$di1$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:32:54, docdwarf@panix.com posted:
>
>[snip]
>
>>>'How long are six months?', I asked.
>>>
>>>'What are you talking about?  All ya gotta do is convert the month to a
>>>number and add six', he sneered.
>>>
>>>'That might work for January through June... but what's six months from
>>>August?', I replied.
>>
>>
>>Those might work for you; but over here March has 31 days and September
>>only 30; likewise May & November (and Oct-Apr).
>
>Were one to have the patience to read the entire posting before responding
>one might, possibly, have seen the possibility of unequal month-length
>addressed.

That comment addresses your "might work" starting months, January to
June; no more.  I thought it unnecessary to acknowledge that you are not
invariably wrong.

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Microsoft - leap day Fail! Steve Dover <sw0rdf1sh@att.net> - 2012-03-04 15:57 -0600
  Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-03-04 22:14 +0000
    Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! Steve Dover <sw0rdf1sh@att.net> - 2012-03-12 14:33 -0500
      Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-03-13 01:32 +0000
        Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-14 21:29 +0000
          Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-03-15 01:07 +0000
            Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-16 20:15 +0000
              Re: Microsoft - leap day Fail! docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-03-17 00:44 +0000

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