From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-17T05:51:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] this month, the next month, and the one after that

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:42:52 +0100, Detlef Reichl <detlef.reichl@gmx.org>  
wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 17.01.2006, 04:45 +0900 schrieb Mason Kessinger:
>> 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!
>>
>
> Try this:
>
> irb(main):040:0* t = Time.now
> => Mon Jan 16 21:27:58 CET 2006
> irb(main):041:0> m = t.mon
> => 1
> irb(main):042:0> nt = Time.mktime 2006, m + 1
> => Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 CET 2006
> irb(main):043:0> p nt.strftime("%B")
> "February"
> => nil
> irb(main):044:0> nt = Time.mktime 2006, m + 2
> => Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 CET 2006
> irb(main):045:0> p nt.strftime("%B")
> "March"
> => nil
>
>
> Cheers
> detlef
>
>


Time#mktime. D'oh. I feel so dense for not remembering that one.

David Vallner