[fpc-pascal] Re: Possible bug in return value of MonthsBetween function in unit dateutils

[Funky Beast]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said:
>> 2009/12/10 Funky Beast <funkybeast-s7p20SfEDVbhUPcrv1QwXQ at public.gmane.org>:
>>> I did read that, but I'm just wondering isn't 9.98767967 more approximate to 10 than 9?
>> How do you round a month?  It makes sense that the function only gives
>> full months, imo.  Either way, I think this is d?lphi compatible and
>> at least documented.
> 
> Yes. Keep in mind that you wouldn't want 16 days difference being rounded up
> to a full month.
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HeHe.....

But I loose 29 days from the above when it yields 9 instead of 10.
Anyway, its just my precision engineering habits kicking in.
I was just consolidating our average production output from the
above 2 dates and the numbers looks funny (and too positive to be true).


Regards,
Funky Beast