From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T21:00:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding the last Sunday of a month

On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Lloyd Linklater wrote:
> Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
>> Well this has been answered fully now, but just for fun, how about  
>> the
>> fully gem driven method:
>>
>>     % cat last_sun_jan.rb
>>     require 'rubygems'
>>     require 'chronic'
>>     require 'facet/times'
>>     require 'facet/time/to_date'
>>
>>     last_sunday_in_jan = (Chronic.parse("1st Sunday in February",
>> :context => :future) - 7.days).to_date
>>
>>     puts last_sunday_in_jan
>>
>>     % ruby last_sun_jan.rb
>>     2008-01-27
>
> That is really cool, Jeremy, except that the last Sunday in January is
> the 28th, not the 27th.  Other than that, cool stuff!  :)

Not in 2008, it's the 27th then.

-Rob

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