The Daily WTF

I have a philosophy on birthdays. The significant ones aren’t the numbers we usually choose- 18, 21, 40, whatever- it’s the ones where you need an extra bit. 2, 4, 8, and so on. By that standard, my next birthday landmark isn’t until 2044, and I’m a patient sort.

Christian inherited some legacy C# code which deals in birthdays. Specifically, it needs to be able to determine when your last birthday was. Now, you have to be a bit smarter than simply “lop off the year and insert this year,” since that could be a future birthday, but not that much smarter.

The basic algorithm most of us would choose, though, might start there. If their birthday is, say, 12/31/1969, then we could ask, is 12/31/2020 in the future? It is. Then their last birthday was on 12/31/2019. Whereas, for someone born on 1/1/1970, we know that 1/1/2020 is in

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