I’m looking for an algorithm to find the date of a day in the future, which is in N days from today.
My main problem is how to deal with leap years in the middle.
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I’m looking for an algorithm to find the date of a day in the future, which is in N days from today.
My main problem is how to deal with leap years in the middle.
If I take your question correctly, your best option is to do the following:
You can do this using the julian day number for a date.
See the Wikipedia article on Julian Day Number (JDN) for more information.
Having said that, if you’re actually using a modern programming language, most have facilities to deal with dates already, such as Java, C#/.NET, Python, etc.