A challenge: adding months to a date?

[Klaus Major]

Hi David,

sorry, little typo in my last mail!

> Hi David,
>
>> I thought this was easy! Well I discovered a bug in some old code  
>> and now I
>> am pulling my hair out trying to fix / code this... an interesting  
>> puzzle
>> for those of you so inclined on a Sunday :)
>>
>> The Task
>> The function needs to add a variable number of months to a given  
>> date:
>>
>> function date_AddMonth monthNum, startDate
>>    ....
>> end date_AddMonth
>>
>> Seems easy no?
>> ...
>
> Hmmm, I always use "dateitems", let the engine do the conversion  
> and never had problem.
> ...
> convert tDate to dateitems
> add num_of_extra_months to item 2 of it
## should be:
add num_of_extra_months to item 2 of tDate
> convert tDate to date
> ...

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de