From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T02:11:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Date problem.

There's gotta be a better way of doing this, but:

irb(main):001:0> require 'date'
irb(main):002:0> puts Date.civil(2005, (DateTime.now.month) -1, 1)
2005-07-01



On 8/29/05, ober <ober@linbsd.org> 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
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
>