From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2007-02-06T19:40:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Calculating a future date

On 06/02/07, Toine <bapolis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to Ruby so please bare with me...
>
> I need to calculate a date that is exactly 31 days from the current
> date in YYYY-MM-DD format. I know that Date.today returns the
> current date, but how can I add 31 days to this value? I'm sure this
> task is simple, but I haven't been able to figure it out.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>

Time now + number of seconds in 31 days
 Time.now + 31*24*60*60
which is equivalent to
  Time.now + 2678400

Farrel