From: Raimon Fs <coder@...>
Date: 2007-12-07T19:53:56+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I add x months to a date

Daniel Lucraft wrote:
> 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

I couldn't find any info about this operator >> with dates.

So, for example, if I have 2007-01-01 and I want to know the last day of 
adding three months (2007-03-31) I would do:

d = Date.new(2007,1,1)
((d >> 3)-1).to_s

it works, but we can relay on this operations ?


regards,


rai

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