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Re:History of Zero-Based Months? by gerikson on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:58AM (#32617137)
At least in Perl, the rationale for this (apart from copying C) is that it's very easy to reference a list (array) of month names if the month indices are zero-based.
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Re:History of Zero-Based Months? by DonaldFisk on Saturday August 27, 2022 @05:40AM (#32617355)
How difficult is it to either subtract 1 before indexing your array, or have a 13 element array with a dummy value in element 0? Deprecate time.h and adopt ISO 8601 already.
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Re:History of Zero-Based Months? by jefftk on Saturday August 27, 2022 @07:58AM (#32618016)
Or put Dec a second time, at 0, and then % 12 works.
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Re:History of Zero-Based Months? by _kst_ on Saturday August 27, 2022 @02:34PM (#32621776)
About as difficult as it is to add 1 before printing the month as a number.
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