Multi-year, month recurrences don't calcaulate correctly

As many people have noticed, TD doesn't recognize the word year. The usual answer to "how do I schedule a task once a year" is "every mm/dd". But what if I have a task that needs to happen every *other* year? I can't say "every 2 years starting mm/dd". One workaround is to say "every 24 months starting mm/dd" but TD doesn't do the calculation the way you would expect. For example, when I enter "every 5 years starting 7/1/2012" into the web app and I complete the task, the next task is scheduled for 6/5/2017 rather than 7/1/2017. When a human says "n months from now", they typically mean "on the same day of the month, but increment the month number by n".

Am I wrong about this? Is there anyone reading this who would consider 7/1/2012 + 60 months = 6/5/2017 to be the right answer?

This would be a lot easier if you would support the word "year", but the same caveat applies to leap years, i.e., a human considers 7/1/2011 + 1 year = 7/1/2012, *not* 6/30/2012 (which would be 7/1/2011 + 365 days).

Asked by David Wagner on Nov 28, 2012 - 08:26