From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-10-12T03:49:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Calc Days from Date

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:22 AM,  <relzne@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> On 11 Okt., 15:26, Michael Guterl <mgut...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:07 AM,  <rel...@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>> > Hello.
>> > I am Ruby Beginner. Now I am trying to write a code, that calcs days
>> > between two dates.
>>
>> > I ask the user for a date. Then the User type a german Date (for
>> > example 12.06.2006). This is working well. Now, what does I have to do
>> > to calc the days between now and the date which has the user give in?
>>
>> > Thanks for your help.
>>
>> tday = Date.today
>> bday = Date.new(2009, 4, 30)
>>
>> days = (bday - tday).to_i         => 201
>>
>> HTH,
>> Michael Guterl
>
> Hi Michael
>
> Thank you for your help. I have now done it with the fallowing code:
>
> datum = Date.Parse(datums)
> seconds = Time.Now-datum
>
> This is also working. The variable datums holds a date which is the
> user give in over the console. Could there be a problem with my code?

Well, there's no Now method.