On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Kerry Sainsbury <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've always wondered: Has anybody ever put up their hand and admitted that
> they were responsible for the decision to make months zero-based in Date and
> Calendar?
>

Just a hunch, but I'd reckon that it's probably derived from struct tm in
C's localtime(3).

http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/time.h.html

-Dom

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