[[ DateTime ]] Adjust date values so they are as documented

livecodeali · livecodeali · commit a46ce2174392 · 2016-01-05T10:55:59.000Z
diff --git a/docs/lcb/notes/16681.md b/docs/lcb/notes/16681.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# LiveCode Builder Host Library
+
+## Local date
+The date items are now adjusted so that the year and month are absolute 
+rather than offsets from 1900 and January respectively.
+
+# [16681] Returned date is not as documented
diff --git a/libscript/src/module-date.cpp b/libscript/src/module-date.cpp
@@ -125,6 +125,12 @@ MCDateExecGetDate(bool t_is_local,
 		return;
 	}
 
+    // tm_mon is number of months since January
+    t_timeinfo . tm_mon++;
+    
+    // tm_year is number of years since 1900
+    t_timeinfo . tm_year += 1900;
+    
 	MCAutoNumberRef t_year, t_month, t_day, t_hour, t_minute, t_second,
 		t_gmtoff;
 	if (!(MCNumberCreateWithInteger (t_timeinfo.tm_year, &t_year) &&
