Question

I’m trying to write a Date class in an attempt to learn C++.

I’m trying to find an algorithm to add or subtract days to a date, where Day starts from 1 and Month starts from 1. It’s proving to be very complex, and google doesn’t turn up much,

Does anyone know of an algorithm which does this?

Answer 1

The easiest way is to actually write two functions, one which converts the day to a number of days from a given start date, then another which converts back to a date. Once the date is expressed as a number of days, it’s trivial to add or subtract to it.

You can find the algorithms here: http://alcor.concordia.ca/~gpkatch/gdate-algorithm.html