From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-17T05:29:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] this month, the next month, and the one after that

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:45:18 +0100, Mason Kessinger  
<masonkessinger@gmail.com> wrote:

> What I want to do is simple.
>
> I'd like code that prints out the name of this month (January) the next
> month (February) and the one after that (March)
>
> I've been able to print this month:
>
> <% t = Time.now %>
> <%= t.strftime(" This Month is: %B") %>
>
> But I can't figure out how to get the next months to print out!
>


My first guess would be requiring "datetime", and then looking up the  
month name per DateTime::MONTHNAMES[t.month + 1].

Mind you, DateTime::MONTHNAMES is one-indexed, starting from January, so  
you'll have to do some index-shiftingto wrap around the end of the array  
correctly. And since there's very little I hate more than shifting array  
indices around, the exercise is left to the reader ;P

When I think about it, DateTime::MONTHNAMES[1..12][t.month % 12] should  
work perfectly for the next month, with (t.month + 1) for the one after  
that, etc.

David Vallner