Bug #8485: Incorrect period index for Gregorian Dates at beginning of each CM_PERIOD

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: tadf (tadayoshi funaba)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p429 (2013-05-15 revision 40747) [x86_64-darwin12.3.0]
• Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN

[teleological (Riley Lynch)]

=begin
In Ruby 1.9-2.0 date_core, the year and chronological Julian day of a Date are stored as offsets from an indexed period relative to 0j, -4712-01-01 in the Julian calendar. Each period consists of exactly 194,796 Julian years, i.e. 194,800 Gregorian years.

Since 0j is -4713-11-24 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, Gregorian calendar years do not align with these periods. A problem occurs when decode_years() uses the Gregorian calendar year of a Date in the the first 38 days of a period to assign the period index ("nth"). The calculation of nth ((y + 4712) / CM_PERIOD_GCY) is incorrect from November 24 until and including December 31. As a result of this error, an instance with period nth-1 is not equivalent to instances that represent the same Julian day, but which are constructed with an accurate period. These tests, which pass under Ruby 1.8, demonstrate the defect:

assert_equal(0, (Date.jd(0) <=> Date.civil(-4713, 11, 24, Date::GREGORIAN)))
assert_equal(0, (Date.jd(213447717) <=> Date.civil(579687, 11, 24)))
assert_equal(0, (Date.jd(-213447717) <=> Date.civil(-589113, 11, 24, Date::GREGORIAN)))

Attached is a patch against trunk which corrects this issue for methods which use decode_year() to assign the period index, including Date.civil, Date.ordinal and Date.commercial.
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[tadf (tadayoshi funaba)]

• Assignee set to tadf (tadayoshi funaba)

different alignments are intentional.
nearly all parts don't require normalized nth and jd.
however, <=> is an exception.
thanks.

[tadf (tadayoshi funaba)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed