From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T22:57:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding the last Sunday of a month

On 9/26/07, Peter Bailey <pbailey@bna.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to find the date for the last Sunday in January, for any year. I
> need this for a budgetary script I'm trying to write. Using the
> Date/Time module, I've done this so far.
>
> require 'date'
> now = DateTime.now
> year = now.year
> d = Date.new(now.year, 1, 31)
> puts d.wday
>

Hmm I believe that
d = Date.new( now.year, 1, 31 )
d - d.wday
should do the trick
HTH
Robert
> yields: 3
>
> This tells me that the last day of January is a Wednesday. But, I need
> that last Sunday. Is there a method in 'date' that can give me the date
> of the last Sunday? The last Sundays of each month are the boundaries
> for my company's budget periods.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
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>


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