Comment by EnigmaticLion

We have a rails 6 app, and there's a test that essentially expects time_ago_in_words(1.year.from_now) to return "about 1 year" (as part of a user facing message). The test failed. I thought it's a flaky test but i was able to reproduce it locally. Turns out executing that code on a leap day returns "almost 1 year" instead. Can test it in rails console if you are interested:

  irb(main):001:0> include ActionView::Helpers::DateHelper
  => Object
  irb(main):002:0> distance_of_time_in_words(Date.new(2025, 2, 28), Date.new(2024, 2, 29))
  => "almost 1 year"
  irb(main):003:0> distance_of_time_in_words(Date.new(2025, 3, 1), Date.new(2024, 2, 29))
  => "about 1 year"
  irb(main):004:0> distance_of_time_in_words(Date.new(2025, 2, 28), Date.new(2024, 2, 28))
  => "about 1 year"