From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-04-05T00:26:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Convert day of year to month, day


On Apr 4, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Rob Redmon wrote:
> Maybe my version of Ruby (1.8.1) is too old.  The computer in question
> is managed by the network pirates and unlikely to be upgraded.  This  
> is
> a noob thought, but is there a way for me to locally upgrade the Date
> class, ala a Ruby Gem?

yyyy, jjj, *ignored = yourdate.split '-'

date = Date.ordinal Integer(yyyy), Integer(jjj)

p date

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