Formal Compliance

Definition

Formal compliance means that the software conforms to the criteria for implementation compliance and a formal proof exists that the following date operations anywhere in the software are equivalent to those in DateBench:

  • determination of leap year
  • conversion from a Gregorian date to day of the year
  • conversion from day of the year to Gregorian date
  • comparison of dates
  • determination of the day of the week
  • adding or subtracting days to a date
  • subtracting a date from another date.

by William Shaffer