From: Hoppy Date: 2006-09-22T05:40:13+09:00 Subject: Re: Calculate last day of month > How do I return the date for the last day of this month (September in > this example)? Looking for an alternate way: could this be a step in the right direction? (See http://chronic.rubyforge.org/) irb(main):001:0> require 'chronic' irb(main):011:0> Chronic.parse('last day of this month') => nil Well... this was close. :-)