From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T01:48:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Date problem.

Hi --

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, ober wrote:

> I have read over the man pages and can not seem to find a way to do the 
> following
>
>
> -----php---------------
> $lastmonth = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")-1, date(01),  date("Y"));
> $name = date('Y-m-d', $lastmonth);
> echo "$name\n";
> ----php----------------
>
> Where the first day of the previous month is listed.
> In this case you would get 2005-07-01

require 'date'
d = Date.today
puts Date.new(d.year, d.month-1, 1).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")


David

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David A. Black
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