On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:49:33PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > my $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 9, time_zone => > 'America/Chicago' ); > $dt->add( months => 3 ); > > Now what do you expect that to produce? I suspect 99% of users expect > that to produce "2003-12-01T00:00:00". In other words, we take month 9, > add 3, and get 12. The time remains untouched. > > But if add_duration did the math on the UTC portions it'd give you > "2003-11-30T23:00:00".
If I understand you correctly, your position is that user's will be confused by DST transitions screwing up additions but won't notice the same effect on subtractions? -J --
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