From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2009-06-11T11:12:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a decent canonical way to get total days in a month from 	say Time class?

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Xeno Campanoli<xeno.campanoli@gmail.com> wrote:
> Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>>
>> I suppose I could flip through local until I generate an exception, but
>> somehow I would think there would be a set of class methods to get:
>
> Here's a fairly simple sequence I found on the net using Date (attributions
> to kelyar, jgwong, and timmorgan, whoever they are):
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> #
>
> require 'date'
>
> d0 = Date.new(2009,6,1)
> puts "trace d0:  #{d0}"

you could jump to end by using negative day

> d0 = Date.new(2009,12,-1)
=> #<Date: 2009-12-31 (4910393/2,0,2299161)>
> d0.day
=> 31