Handle non-ISO-calendar edge case with leap years and differencing

polyfill/lib/calendar.mjs

@@ -1054,21 +1054,40 @@ const nonIsoHelperBase = {
       }
       case 'month':
       case 'year': {
+        // Sign is -1 if calendarTwo < calendarOne, 1 if calendarTwo > calendarOne
         const sign = this.compareCalendarDates(calendarTwo, calendarOne);
+        // If dates are equal, return 0 date duration
         if (!sign) {
           return { years: 0, months: 0, weeks: 0, days: 0 };
         }
+        // Take the difference between the years of the two dates
         const diffYears = calendarTwo.year - calendarOne.year;
+        // Take the difference between the days of the two dates
         const diffDays = calendarTwo.day - calendarOne.day;
+        // Get list of additional months, and possibly cycle info
         const monthInfo = monthCodeInfo[this.id];
         const cycleInfo = monthInfo ? monthInfo.cycleInfo : { years: 1, months: 12 };
+        // Compute years difference if necessary
         if (diffYears && (largestUnit === 'year' || cycleInfo)) {
+          // diffInYearSign is the result of comparing the month-day of calendarOne
+          // and the month-day of calendarTwo, in the forwards direction
           let diffInYearSign = 0;
+          // If calendarTwo's month is greater than calendarOne's month,
+          // then the years difference should be positive (or negative if sign < 0).
           if (calendarTwo.monthCode > calendarOne.monthCode) diffInYearSign = 1;
+          // If calendarTwo's month is less than calendarOne's month,
+          // then the years difference should be negative (or positive if sign < 0).
           if (calendarTwo.monthCode < calendarOne.monthCode) diffInYearSign = -1;
+          // If the two months are equal, the sign of the years difference should be
+          // the sign of the days difference.
           if (!diffInYearSign) diffInYearSign = MathSign(diffDays);
-          const isOneFurtherInYear = diffInYearSign * sign < 0;
-          years = isOneFurtherInYear ? diffYears - sign : diffYears;
+          // isCalendarOneFurtherInYear is true iff the ordering of the years
+          // doesn't match the ordering of the month/days.
+          const isCalendarOneFurtherInYear = diffInYearSign * sign < 0;
+          // Add either 1 or -1 to years if isCalendarOneFurtherInYear is true.
+          // If monthday-two is later in the year than monthday-one, need
+          // to correct diffYears because it's gone one too far.
+          years = isCalendarOneFurtherInYear ? diffYears - sign : diffYears;
         }
         // Try to skip ahead as many months as possible for this calendar
         // without adding month by month in a loop
@@ -1079,13 +1098,26 @@ const nonIsoHelperBase = {
           }
           years = 0;
         }
+
+        // intermediate should be a date between calendarOne and calendarTwo,
+        // that is within a year of calendarTwo.
         const intermediate =
           years || months ? this.addCalendar(calendarOne, { years, months }, 'constrain', cache) : calendarOne;
+
+        // At this point, intermediate could fail to be in between calendarOne and calendarTwo
+        // due to leap years.
+        // In that case, add or subtract an extra year from years,
+        // so that the months can be totaled up correctly.
+        if (this.compareCalendarDates(intermediate, calendarTwo) * sign > 0) {
+          years -= sign;
+        }
+
         // Now we have less than one cycle remaining. Add one month at a time
         // until we go over the target, then back up one month and calculate
         // remaining days.
         let current;
-        let next = intermediate;
+        // Need to re-add years and months because years might have changed
+        let next = years || months ? this.addCalendar(calendarOne, { years, months }, 'constrain', cache) : calendarOne;
         do {
           months += sign;
           current = next;
@@ -1099,6 +1131,10 @@ const nonIsoHelperBase = {
         months -= sign; // correct for loop above which overshoots by 1
         const remainingDays = this.calendarDaysUntil(current, calendarTwo, cache);
         days = remainingDays;
+
+        // This may return a duration like <P12M11D> that appears to have unbalanced months.
+        // But that's fine, because subtracting <P12M11D> from a date may have different
+        // results than subtracting <P1Y11D> from the same date, in the presence of leap months.
         break;
       }
     }