From: Michael Kohl <citizen428@...>
Date: 2009-06-11T19:52:46+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 3:02 AM, Xeno Campanoli<xeno.campanoli@gmail.com> 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:
>
>        daysofmonth = Time.daysofmonth(y,m)

Do you want to get the maximum number of days for a given year/month
combination? Here you go:

def days_of_month(year=Time.now.year, m=1)
  (Date.new(year,12,31)<<12-month).day
end

days_of_month(2004, 2) # => 29
days_of_month(2003, 2) # => 28

Michael

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