From: charlie bowman <cbowmanschool@...>
Date: 2006-01-30T13:56:07+09:00
Subject: Re: relative dates

Thanks, I had no idea that it was so simple in Ruby!


today = Time.now
puts (today - 7)


I thought I would have to write the method myself!






A LeDonne wrote:
> On 1/29/06, Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbride@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > how can I do this? "last_week = 7.days.ago"
>>
>> or subtract in seconds:
>>   last_week = today - 7*24*60*60
>>
>> Cameron
>>
> 
> This is probably going to be easier with Date than with Time...
> 
> irb(main):001:0> require 'date'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> now = Date.today; now.strftime()
> => "2006-01-29"
> irb(main):003:0> last_week = now - 7; last_week.strftime()
> => "2006-01-22"
> 
> If you are concerned about times, you can use DateTime in place of Date 
> above.
> 
> -A


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