Accounting standard for "one month ago"

[Robert Graham Merkel]

Christopher Browne writes:
 > On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:27:05 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as
 > My inclination is to treat the last day of the month in a "sticky"
 > manner; a month back is always the last day of the month, regardless
 > of number.  The 30th of a month with 31 days would move to the 30th of
 > the previous month.  And, perhaps, "refuse to be sticky." 
 > 
Yeah, that sounds reasonable.

 > Pretty bizarre; dates are _not_ trivial to play with...
Yeah - 365 is such an *ugly* number.

I hereby declare that from now on, the year to have 256 days :)

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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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