settlement days for discount factor

Posted by Chak Jack Wong on Jan 06, 2003; 1:56am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/settlement-days-for-discount-factor-tp2329.html

Hi,
Can someone explain to me the convention of the discount curve. (I am
using 0.3).
The discount curve starts from the settlement day (from the example
program I tried is 2 days.) i.e. the discount factor at 2 days from now
is 1 rather than < 1.  Why is that?
Jack