From: Daniel Lucraft <dan@...>
Date: 2007-07-04T00:35:46+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I add x months to a date

Ben Edwards wrote:
> On 03/07/07, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > manipulate it there, if and when I needed an actual date object with that
>> > value I would create a date object and give that out.
> 
> This all seems like a lot of messing around for what should be a
> standard operation.  This type of thing must exist in one of the
> standard libraries.
> 
> Ben

Actually, you are totally right. The '>>' operator does what is 
required:

irb> my_date = Date.new( 2007, 1, 1 )
=> #<Date: 4908203/2,0,2299161>

irb> my_date.to_s
=> "2007-01-01"
irb> (my_date >> 4).to_s
=> "2007-05-01"

best,
Dan

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