On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 07:49 -0700,
[hidden email] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I was trying to compute a year fraction with these lines of code:
>
> Daycounter dc = ActualActual(ActualActual::ICMA);
> Date d1 = Date(19,April,2013);
> Date d2 = Date(22,April,2014);
> Time yf = dc.yearFraction(d1,d2);
>
> yf appears to have a value of 1.0 rather than 368.0/365.0, as I would have
> expected. Is there some issue with the daycounter, or am I just using it
> incorrectly?
You probably want to pass two additional dates to the yearFraction()
call in order to specify the reference period. As it is, I think it
takes d1 and d2 as reference, so you end up with 368/368.
Luigi
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