From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-01-17T08:15:51+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] this month, the next month, and the one after that

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Detlef Reichl wrote:

> OK
>
> ���: p(Time::mktime(2006,(13%12)))
> Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 CET 2006

   harp:~ > irb
   irb(main):001:0> p(Time::mktime(2006,(48%12)))
   ArgumentError: argument out of range
           from (irb):1:in `mktime'
           from (irb):1


you need

     t = Time::now
     n = 48
     n = (t.month + n) % 12
     (n == 0 ? t : Time::mktime(1970, n)).strftime('%b')

sorry, couldn't resist!  ;-)

>
>> i prefer the stupid approach:
>>
>>      harp:~ > cat a.rb
>>      class Time
>>        def this_month
>>          strftime '%b'
>>        end
>>        def next_month n = 1
>>          t = dup
>>          s = 60 * 60 * 24
>>          n.times{ m = t.month; t += s until t.month != m }
>
> Outch :-) found no good logic? who cares, lets do it with brute force

hey!  i said it was stupid ;-)

cheers.

-a
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