From: "Nathaniel S. H. Brown" <nshb@...>
Date: 2006-01-30T14:31:55+09:00
Subject: Re: relative dates

You might want to check out RUNT:

http://runt.rubyforge.org/

DateBox might also be worth a gander:

http://datebox.inimit.com

-Nb

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 Nathaniel S. H. Brown                           http://nshb.net 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: A LeDonne [mailto:aledonne.listmail@gmail.com] 
> Sent: January 29, 2006 9:15 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML; cbowmanschool@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: relative dates
> 
> On 1/29/06, charlie bowman <cbowmanschool@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, I had no idea that it was so simple in Ruby!
> >
> >
> > today = Time.now
> > puts (today - 7)
> 
> Careful!
> 
> If you're using Time, you're subtracting SECONDS:
> irb(main):001:0> today = Time.now
> => Mon Jan 30 00:11:51 EST 2006
> irb(main):002:0> puts( today - 7 )
> Mon Jan 30 00:11:44 EST 2006
> => nil
> 
> That's why I included the " require 'date' " in my example, 
> and suggested that you could use DateTime if you needed times.
> 
> >
> >
> > 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
>