From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-11-12T18:17:54+09:00
Subject: Re: To find 2nd Sunday of March

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Rajaa Ramanathan
<rajaram@riverstonetech.com> wrote:

>     I have used the following code to find the second Sunday of march.
>  lastdate_of_march = Date.new(current_year, 3, 31)
>  i = lastdate_of_march.wday
>  second_sunday = Date.new(current_year, 3, (31-i))
>
> is there any simple method to find Second Sunday of March.
> If any ! knows kindly help me..

Come on, that's really not difficult.  Start with the first day of
March and go from there.  Knowing how many days there are in a week
should be sufficient.  Note also, that you can use math operators on
Date instances (see "ri Date").

Cheers

robert

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