This is not a bug, this is a wart inherited from C. (There are few of them, but they exist nevertheless.) The reason is that arrays indexes are 0-based, both in C and in Perl, and it was thought that the main use of the month as a number was to index an array of strings. But more often than not, the month as a number is used as a number like "2001-12-21" or "21/12/2001" (or "12/21/2001" in the US).

Fortunately, with Perl 6, hopefully, we get rid of this hideous wart, as well as the Y19.1K pseudo-bug. See http://dev.perl.org/rfc/48.html.

In reply to Re: A month behind the times... by Sweeper
in thread A month behind the times... by pppaulll

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