Hi, Adam Paulukanis wrote on Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 04:39:54PM +0200:
> if today is the last day of the month, tomorrow will be 1st. That is a non-portable assumption and a trap that many people seem to fall into. For example, in the shire calendar, 1 Afterlithe (~= July) is the fourth day after 30 Forelithe (which always is the last day of Forelithe ~= June) in some years, and the fifth day after in other years, but never the first, second, or third. Similarly, 1 Afteryule (~= January) is the third day after 30 Forejule (the last day in Foreyule ~= December). That also implies that January 1 is *never* the first day of the year, and that the last day of the last month of a year is *never* the last day of that year. Localization is an extremely hard and complex task. For that reason, OpenBSD believes the C library is the wrong place to attempt to provide such functionality. The same applies to general-purpose command line tools like date(1), ls(1), and cron(8). The price to pay in terms of complexity, and hence ultimately in bugs, would be excessive. Yours, Ingo
