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Message Posted: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 @ 17:09:32 GMT





     
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Subj:   Re: ADD_MONTHS
 
From:   Dieter Noeth



Swarnapuri, Vinod wrote:

  I expected ADD_MONTHS(DATE '2003-11-30', -1) function to return '2003-10-31', but it returns '2003-10-30'. Is it a bug?  


No, just think about which date you'd expect for ADD_MONTHS(DATE '2003-11-29', -1), '2003-10-30'?

If you want to calculate the last day of the previous month:

DATE '2003-11-30' - EXTRACT(DAY FROM DATE '2003-11-30');


Dieter





     
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