Q533 How can I calculate the number of days in the current month?

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The following little gem was provided by Paul Bennett. At first look it looks too simple, but on closer investigation it is a pretty clever piece of code:

function days_in_month (year, month) {
     return 32 - new Date(year, month, 32).getDate();
}

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