On Mar 15, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Paul McNett wrote:

> Is the day zero-indexed as well?

No, it's the actual day.

>> Should we change getDateTuple() to return the one-based month?

>> Should today's date be returned as (2005, 2, 15) or (2005, 3, 15)?

>

> I'd like to see arguments in favor of zero-based dates. At this point

> it only seems sensible to make them 1-based like how the world really

> works.

Well, out of the three values in the tuple, only one is typically

written in character form: the month. If you have:

months = (January, February, ...)

then it certainly makes sense to have the month return the proper index.

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