Again with the leap years...

As I explained to davidrw, the script as written (both mine and your version) uses current year +/- 1 year, not some arbitrary year in the past or future. At no time is any other year passed into a date function.

Which means it breaks if you can go back in time to run it before 1970 (which, if you've found a way to do it, please let me know cause there are some investments I'd like to make). It also breaks if you're still using it by 2038, but that's a Perl internal date problem and well beyond the control of this script (and every other Perl script written that uses current date).

So neither of our scripts will ever have to deal with dates < Jan 1st 1970 or >= (some point in) 2038. Not as written anyway

In reply to Re^8: Calculate Age, days to next and days from last for a given birthday by ruzam
in thread Calculate Age, days to next and days from last for a given birthday by ruzam

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