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O.P. RE: RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1]
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Originally posted by haydn
I would use option B. I count "one year" as 365 days. If you add 365 calendar days to February 29 2004 you end up with March the first, 2005.

Contradictory to this however, if it were 29-2-04 and somebody was to ask me "What are you doing in one year and one day from now?" I would probably assume they were talking about March 1st, 2005.
And that last one is indeed exactly what this poll is about.... You as the viewer do not know which target date is meant. You need to determine that by simply seeing "1 year and 0 days" or "1 year and 1 days". How it is calculated is the problem for the programmer :p

So let me ask it differently:

If the current date is 29-2-04, and you see in someones nickname: "in 1 year and 1 day the earth will end", on what day will the earth end, as your gut feeling would say it?

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Originally posted by haydn
My final 'gut' answer is option B, but only in the case where it is going from one leap year to the next 'non-leap' year.
but that isn't an answer to the question though. :p the startdate and time remaining is especially choosen for this delimma, it wouldn't work with another.

(btw: it doesn't matter which method you pick if you go from one leap year to another, it will always be "x years and 0 days" (even with method A) for whatever starting date)

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Originally posted by haydn
Note: Does the title suggest there are going to be other dilemmas?
Possible... highly depends on the thoughts and views replied in this thread


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keep those detailed views and thoughts comming guys, they are very usefull and important...

This post was edited on 01-02-2006 at 05:31 PM by CookieRevised.
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how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by CookieRevised on 01-01-2006 at 08:07 AM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by John Anderton on 01-01-2006 at 08:22 AM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by Val on 01-01-2006 at 08:52 AM
RE: RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by CookieRevised on 01-01-2006 at 09:07 AM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by WDZ on 01-01-2006 at 09:01 AM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by Sunshine on 01-01-2006 at 12:25 PM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by CookieRevised on 01-02-2006 at 03:31 PM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by hmaster on 01-02-2006 at 03:37 PM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by Yousef on 01-02-2006 at 03:53 PM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by haydos on 01-02-2006 at 04:06 PM
RE: RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by CookieRevised on 01-02-2006 at 04:38 PM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by Chris4 on 01-02-2006 at 05:11 PM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by Tochjo on 01-02-2006 at 05:30 PM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by John Anderton on 01-02-2006 at 06:17 PM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by CookieRevised on 01-02-2006 at 08:03 PM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by John Anderton on 01-03-2006 at 06:43 AM
RE: how much time to go? [DILEMMA 1] - by CookieRevised on 03-07-2006 at 01:10 AM


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