From: Yaxm Yaxm <snowstorm+rubyforum@...>
Date: 2007-05-01T12:01:51+09:00
Subject: Re: how to represent Date before epoch as a integer

yeah. using Julian Day number works.

But there's no years_ago method in date class.

guess I need to write one.

Thanks.

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:35:06 +0900,
> Yaxm Yaxm wrote in [ruby-talk:249588]:
>> I'd like to represent a user's birth date as a integer number, so that I
>> can tell Ferret to do the comparision easily.
> 
> Date supports Julian Day Number.
> 
> Date.today.jd #=> 2454221


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