From: -- -- <yannick@...>
Date: 2010-04-28T18:33:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding days to date

botp wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:09 PM, -- -- <yannick@sente.ch> wrote:
>> Does anyone know what the problem with the following code ???
>>
>>>> Date.today.to_s
>> => "2010-04-28"
>>>> (Date.today + 1.day).to_s
>> => "2246-11-17"
>>>> (Date.today + 2.days).to_s
>> => "2483-06-07"
>>
> 
> compare
> 
> Date.today + 1
> Date.today + 2
> Time.now + 1.day
> Time.now + 2.day

>> 1.day
=> 86400
>> (Date.today + 1).to_s
=> "2010-04-29"
>> (Time.now + 1.day).to_s
=> "Thu Apr 29 09:32:28 +0000 2010"

1.day is in seconds, so it adds 86400 days instead of 1...

Thank you for your replies !

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