Posted by Norman Peelman on 02/06/07 00:17

Allodoxaphobia wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:09:58 GMT, Gunnar G wrote:
>>> Now this is just a guess, but if 'june' comes from an array starting with
>>> zero, so that 0=january, then 4=may and 5=june, it propably should start
>>> from 1=january and in that case 5 would actually be may... If that doesn't
>>> help, see the whole output of getdate with print_r() and post the result
>>> here.
>
>> How can any one start counting from something else than zero in computer
>> applications?
>
> Standards are GREAT. And, you have so many to chose from!
>
>> Thanks! I'm so very, very stupid.
>
> I don't think so. As someone who has worked his way through *A LOT* of
> programming languages since 1966, "Counting from 0/1" is just _one_ of
> the 'standards' I never take for granted. (And, I _still_ screw up....)
>
> Jonesy

I seem to remember that back in the C64 days you could actually tell
the script (program) to start at 0 or 1 if you wanted. I can't remember
what that command was though...

Norm

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