Chris Rebert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: >>>>>>> greg <g...@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> (g) wrote: >> >>> g> MRAB wrote: >>>>> And when someone says "January 30", do they really mean the day before >>>>> the last day of the month? >> >>> g> No, no, that's January -2, a *completely* different thing! >> >> But for someone else it would be February -2. > > And for still others, it's the last $DAYOFWEEK of the month, which > just happened to fall on the 30th.
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