From: Jan Friedrich <janfri.rubyforge@...>
Date: 2010-03-04T01:11:55+09:00
Subject: Re: find days between two dates span different years

Li Chen <chen_li3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Which method is used to calculate the days between two dates spanning
> different years?

Something like this:

>> require 'date'
=> false
>> d1 = Date.new(2009, 8, 12)
=> #<Date: 4910111/2,0,2299161>
>> d2 = Date.new(2010, 3, 3)
=> #<Date: 4910517/2,0,2299161>
>> d2 - d1
=> Rational203, 1
>> (d2 - d1).to_i
=> 203

Regards,
Jan Friedrich