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Re: convert dob into days

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Mark Lloyd wrote:

> On 05/25/2017 06:45 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Premature optimization is the root of all evil.  Suppose the OP bought
>> into that approach and concluded that this would mean that they would
>> never have to do the rounding, someone in the country of Absurdistan[tm]
>> where clocks are switched at noon (when people would have siesta anyway)
>> would get the wrong value for their age in days if an odd number of DST
>> switches would lie between the dates.
> 
> If setting the time to noon could cause an error in Absurdistan[tm]
> (proximity of DST change to default time), leaving the time set to
> midnight could cause an error in any REAL place that does the DST
> changes around midnight (some timezones in Europe do).

You are missing the point.
 
> Also, noon is actually correct. You're specifying a date only, noon
> gives you the mean ("average") of that time period.

Nonsense.
 
> BTW, I'd choose to still do the rounding. This is NOT an attempt to make
> the code shorter or faster, but more correct.

You don’t say.
 
>>>> Your From header field value is disregarding Netiquette.
>>>
>>> I haven't heard that one before. What about it to you consider
>>> undesirable?
>> Use of the “invalid” TLD by you is blocking the private e-mail feedback
>> channel which is an important part of Usenet communication.
> 
> When I started using usenet, I put my real email address there. I
> changed it when that capability was so often abused. I'm not talking
> about spam (it comes anyway), but about replies that belong in the
> newsgroup.

What a nonsense.  The private feedback channel is there so that subjects can 
be discussed in private *because* they do NOT belong in the newsgroup.

> I will provide an E-mail address if necessary.

Not providing an e-mail address causes those replies either be posted to the 
newsgroup, where they are off-topic, or it is effectively telling people to 
shut up when they would like to tell you something that does not belong 
there.

This is *anti-social* behavior by you.

> Usually it is not.

*PLONK*

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convert dob into days negisunny38@gmail.com - 2017-05-24 09:58 -0700
  Re: convert dob into days "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-05-24 19:16 +0200
    Re: convert dob into days negisunny38@gmail.com - 2017-05-24 10:31 -0700
      Re: convert dob into days "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-05-24 23:08 +0200
    Re: convert dob into days Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-05-24 16:33 -0500
      Re: convert dob into days "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-05-25 16:29 +0200
  Re: convert dob into days Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-24 20:06 +0200
    Re: convert dob into days Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-05-24 16:24 -0500
      Re: convert dob into days Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-25 01:00 +0200
        Re: convert dob into days Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-05-24 19:35 -0500
          Re: convert dob into days Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2017-05-25 11:27 +0000
          Re: convert dob into days Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-25 13:45 +0200
            Re: convert dob into days Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-05-25 13:35 -0500
              Re: convert dob into days Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-26 00:35 +0200
              Re: convert dob into days Dr J R Stockton <J.R.Stockton@physics.org> - 2017-05-25 15:45 -0700
                Re: convert dob into days "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-05-26 09:12 +0200
            Re: convert dob into days Dr J R Stockton <reply1700@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2017-05-26 18:40 +0100
              Re: convert dob into days Sam E <why.should.this@be.email.invalid> - 2017-05-27 10:14 -0500
  Re: convert dob into days Dr J R Stockton <J.R.Stockton@physics.org> - 2017-05-24 14:36 -0700

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