From: Rob Biedenharn Date: 2010-11-12T23:43:46+09:00 Subject: Re: To find 2nd Sunday of March On Nov 12, 2010, at 4:17 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Rajaa Ramanathan > 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 > > -- > remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end > http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/ Think about it like this (assuming that you don't want to install the chronic gem): The second week is the 8th to the 14th of the month. Sunday is wday 0. If the 14th is a Monday, which has a wday of 1, the second Sunday is 14-1=13th. end_of_week_2 = Date.civil(Date.today.year, 3, 14) second_sunday = end_of_week_2 - end_of_week_2.wday Sunday is easiest with this method (because it is wday==0), but you can generalize it to any day of the week. -Rob Rob Biedenharn Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com http://AgileConsultingLLC.com/ rab@GaslightSoftware.com http://GaslightSoftware.com/