Is this question correct or am I missing anything? LocalDate.now() previous one year question

[Leandro Takeda]

Which statement always returns a date exactly one year before the time if the given statement is run?

Select TWO options:

LocalDate lastYear1 = LocalDate.now().minus(Period.of(1, 0, 0));
LocalDate lastYear2 = LocalDate.now().minus(1, ChronoUnit.YEARS);
LocalDate lastYear3 = LocalDate.now().minus(365, ChronoUnit.DAYS);
LocalDate lastYear4 = LocalDate.now().minusYears(1);

All of them returned the same result:

E.g.:

2017-06-27
2017-06-27
2017-06-27
2017-06-27

[Campbell Ritchie]

Try starting from 2016‑06‑27
Have you read the documentation for those methods of the LocalDate object?

[Stephan van Hulst]

The question is ambiguous (what is an exact year?), but I still believe there are three correct answers. The only one that is obviously wrong is lastYear3.

[Campbell Ritchie]

I was getting a bit confused by the documentation,, but if Stephan is correct and there are three right answers, then I shall worry a lot less.

OP: Please always say tell us where such questions come from, to reduce copyright issues, and so we can verify the original

[Leandro Takeda]

First of all, thanks for the help, and you are correct, I should have provided my thoughts about the documentation and I guess this question is not 100% clear. It´s, as you mentioned, ambiguous.

All the answers would be correct, except for lastYear3 because we will have years with not exactly 365 days, also as called "leap years".

This is from Whizlabs by the way.

Thanks!

[Campbell Ritchie]

Are you sure you have copied the question exactly? I should have thought that Whizzlabs would have checked their questions carefully.

[Leandro Takeda]

Yes, I did, I´m not sure If I can paste a screenshot here? I guess not.

I reviewed the question again and yes, it´s exactly the same!

[Campbell Ritchie]

We usually don't like screenshots for reasons explained here, but in these circumstances a screenshot would be OK. When you are replying, click the “attachments” tab.

[Leandro Takeda]

There you go...

[Stephan van Hulst]

Huh. I'd ask them for an explanation.

[Leandro Takeda]

Yeap, will do... thanks Stephan!

[Leandro Takeda]

Whizlabs replied me and they pointed me to the "minusYear" method, as you see in the screenshot, the s is missing :/

So, it´s not minusYear. It´s minusYears, in the plural, so last lastYear1 and lastYear2 are the correct ones.

Now, a question for you guys which, of course, are more experient than me, does this kind of question really appear in the exam?

Thanks!

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

No. While the exam does enjoy tricking you, it doesn't enjoy tricking you on whether you missed one character in a method name. (Unless it is one that is highlighted in the cert books. For example Collections.sort exists. And there is a Collection class so that could in theory come up.

But year vs years. No.