From: Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...>
Date: 2009-06-11T12:02:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a decent canonical way to get total days in a month from 	say Time class?

botp wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
That is nice.  Thanks.