From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-09-15T00:30:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting current date

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:13 PM, laredotornado
> <laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 11, 9:38 pm, "DanDiebolt.exe" <dandieb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>>>
>>> irb(main):005:0> Date.today.to_s
>>> => "2008-09-11"
>>>
>>> Seehttp://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Date.html
>>
>> Thanks for this info and the link.  I couldn't find this on the linked
>> page, but what is an expression to get the current date minus one
>> month, in the same format as above?
>>
>>  - Dave
>
> In IRB...
>
> require 'date'
> => true
> (Date.today << 1).to_s
> => 2008-8-12
> #Be prepared for edge cases...
> (Date.new(2008-3-31) << 1).to_s
> => 2008-2-29

<cough/>  That was, of course supposed to be (Date.new(2008, 3, 31) <<
1).to_s, _not_ Date.new(2008-3-31).

Note that the method is leap-year aware.

Todd