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This is also a programming question too...

I want as many as possible opinions. But do think about it for a while! Please don't simply vote for something because somebody else voted for it or because it has the most votes, as that will not help me at all.

I don't want to give much technical background on this, as that might influence how you vote.

The question is regarding counting how much time there is to go.

First poll I create would be to tell me what you think the result might be for a count towards a date (and again, there is no really right or wrong solution, both are perfect valid if you think about it)...

Let's say it is february 29th, 2004 and you have a special dinner on march 1st, 2005. What do you aspect to see in a countdown?

A) 1 year and 1 day to go (because february 29th 2004 + 1 day = march 1st 2004. And that + 1 year = march 1st 2005)
B) 1 year and 0 days to go (because february 29th 2004 + 1 year =  february 29th 2005, which doesn't exist, and thus becomes march 1st 2005)

Or to put it in another way. If it is february 29th, 2004 and you see in a countdown "1 year and 1 day to go", what does your gut feeling say the target date would be?
A) march 1st 2005
B) march 2nd 2005

Additional example for both methods:
Still same current date (february 29th, 2004), but now our dinner is on february 28th, 2005:
A) Method A from above will give you: 11 months, 28 days to go
B) Method B from above will give you: 11 months, 30 days to go



note 1: this isn't an issue about including or not including the current day into the calculation.
The current day is not included in neither count. If it was, the options would be:
    A) 1 year 2 days.
    B) 1 year 1 day.
So the questions (and dilemma) still remains...

note 2: every other futur date calculation for other months can be done with both calculation methods and the result will always be the same for both methods. So it isn't either a matter of what method calculates the other dates correctly, as both methods will...

note 3: but don't calculate too much! The answers I want must come from the gut so to speak; The meaning of this poll is if you see something like that on an ad on the street, what would your gut feeling say without to much thinking about it...