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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Length of " a month"

If I am speaking to a friend today ( May 19th) and say " I am getting married in 2 months time", when could my wedding day be;

A) July 19th
B) July 1st
C) either

I am asking since people's relative precision of such statements sometimes varies.
  

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Hi If you say 'in two months time', I'd say that could be any time around mid-July If you say 'in exactly two months time', I'd say that is July 19th Dave

— Dave_anon

  • Hi If you say 'in two months time', I'd say that could be any time around mid-July If you say 'in exactly two months time', I'd say that is July 19th Dave
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Hi

If you say 'in two months time', I'd say that could be any time around mid-July

If you say 'in exactly two months time', I'd say that is July 19th

Dave
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dave_anonIf you say 'in exactly two months time', I'd say that is July 19th
But May has 31 days and June has 30, so how do you figure that?

Note the thread title: Length of "a month"

CJ
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Hi

I work on a computer database where add_months('19-MAY-2016', 2) will compute to '19-JUL-2016'

We could argue about whether a month should be exactly the lunar period or one-twelfth of the solar year - people have discussed that for a long time!

But I'm happy to go with the same day of the month, two months later

Dave :-)
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Can you crash it with add_months('31-JUL-2016', 2)? Emotion: smile

CJ
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Hi

I hope not!

I find that the lunar month is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds

But, even if I were planning my wedding, I don't think I'd be that exact

Dave :-)
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