AddLines not working as expected

[Jay Schille]

Thanks, Michael, for confirming.

>Jay
>
>Nobody else has shown any interest in this  so I had a look at it.  
>You are correct - using "M" as the bump parameter adds the expected 
>number of new records but each is the first day of the expected month 
>rather than the day specified in the start parameter.  Similarly, if 
>"Y" is used as the bump parameter, each new record is the first day of 
>the expected year.
>
>Certainly a bug - Jim or Dave might like to confirm this.
>
>michael
>
>
>On 15/04/2008, at 3:15 AM, Jay Schille wrote:
>
>>  Here's what I've got going:
>>  (EventDate is a date field in the database)
>>
>>  local oDate
>>      oDate=date("04/15/08")
>>         if HowOften="monthly"
>>              AddLines EventDate, monthmath(oDate, 1), monthmath(oDate,
>>  8), "M", 1
>>          endif
>>
>>  This produces eight new records, the first of which, as expected, has
>>  the EventDate of "05/15/08." But the next seven records have
>>  EventDates  sequenced as "06/01/08," "07/01/08"... Not what I want.
>>
>>  Is this a bug or a feature or am I not using the procedure correctly?
>>  --
>  > Jay Schille

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Jay Schille