From: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...>
Date: 2010-11-13T11:04:31+09:00
Subject: Re: To find 2nd Sunday of March

On 11/12/2010 1:22 AM, Rajaa Ramanathan wrote:
> All,
>       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..
>
> Regards,
> Rajaa
>
rthompso@raker>~
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'chronic'
=> true
irb(main):002:0>  Chronic.parse('2nd sunday in march', :context => :future)
=> Sun Mar 13 13:00:00 -0400 2011
irb(main):003:0>  Chronic.parse('2nd sunday in march', :context => :past)
=> Sun Mar 14 13:00:00 -0400 2010
irb(main):004:0>
irb(main):005:0>  Chronic.parse('2nd sunday in march')
=> Sun Mar 13 13:00:00 -0400 2011