[ExI] new and improved intermittent liar

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:29 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> Ordinarily if one says "a month ago" on 15 October, one means 15 September.
> But what if one says "a month from now" on 31 October?  What day is that?
> What if one says "six months from now" on October 31st?

Actually, there is a convention for that.  If you specify "month", then you are
only passing the month-to-month transition the specified number of times.

"A month from now" on October 31st is November 30th, since that is the span
of one full "month" - to wit, November.

"Six months from now" on October 31st is April 30th, for the same reason.

It is for this reason that things needing precision, that deal with that sort of
timescale, are labeled with "90 days" or the like instead of "3 months".

So, no, you can not get out of it by having "one month from now" actually
skip to a period in the 2nd month from now.