Re: How to define an \<expire\> tag\?

[Fritz Zaucker <nospam@thanx>]

Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org> writes:

> maybe I'm completly nuts, but why should this break for leap-years ?
> you're comparing two dates created by the same mechanism. 
> As long as your constants aren't too small it should work, so i think
> if ( $ct[0]+100*$ct[1]*100*$ct[2] >= et[0]+100*$et[1]*1000*$et[2]){...
> would do it, too.

I guess you are correct. I was actually wondering if the "395" was a
design-choice, although 366 might have been more intuitive then ...

Cheers,
Fritz

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