Re: Last Date of previous month

Posted in 2003

Jack Parker — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:58:52 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Viola. It's trailer-ese. Roughly translated it means voil' - or Bob's your uncle. Something I picked up in the days when I had hair. Alas, like a bad social disease, it won't go away. cheers j. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Captain Pedantic" <theharlequin36@hotmail.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Last Date of previous month > "Jack Parker" <vze2qjg5@verizon.net> wrote in message > news:boonur$etf$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > > > > > > get current year and month > > set day element of that to 1 (i.e. the first) > > subtract 1 day from that > > viola - the last day of last month. > > Viola? Is that viola da spalla or viola da gamba? > Or perhaps even voil'?! > > > sending to informix-list