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This was a bit misleading. It's about date handling, which is a complex scenario well outside 1 + 1.

I was directly thinking dates when I saw the headline :-)

I too have had my share of problems with date handling. One year is not always 52 weeks, A month is never 30 days, most days have 24 hours (but not all of them) and so on...

Not to mention the famous D/M/Y, M/D/Y, Y-M-D ordering problem...

Me to I recall fixing a bug with a major uk company BACS transfer tape where the accounts receivable system was instant that you could have more than 365 days in a year.

Which meant that we where unable to collect any Direct debits for 3/4 of year!

I did not intend to mislead; i was thinking more about objects and ruby than mathmatics with the title

I guess "misleading operator overloading" would be too boring, huh.

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