The meeting involved the State Changers discussing a complex issue related to date formatting and calculations in a program they were developing. One of the attendees was trying to build a process which calculates dates from the maturity date back to the issue date. However, he confronted challenges dealing with end of month dates, particularly when the month ended with 29th, 30th or 31st day.
The highlight of the discussion was the introduction of a special keyword 't', used in the PHP Date method. This 't' was explained as representing the last day of the month, providing a means to address the end-of-month date issue. A suggestion to make the use of 't' conditional, based on whether the maturity date fulfills the end-of-month criteria, was also proposed. The meeting established that dealing with dates, especially end-of-month math, is complex due to the variability of months. In the end, the State Changer who was working on this algorithm decided not to spend too much time on this issue and agreed that setting the end date to the 30th day would suffice for his requirements. The discussion also involved a recommendation to refer to the PHP Date method on PHP.net for further useful tools for working with relative dates. No specific technologies or tools, from the initial list of tools, were mentioned in the meeting.
(Source: Office Hours 7/31/2023 )
