From: Klaus Stein <usenet@...>
Date: 2010-11-25T17:20:45+09:00
Subject: Re: date of 1 year ago

zuerrong <zuerrong@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How does ruby get the date of 1 year ago?
> like the result of with shell command:
> 
> date -d '1 year ago'
> 
Lets use the Date class:

d = Date.today
onyearago = Date.civil(d.year-1, d.month, d.day)

puts onyearago.asctime

Have fun!

Klaus

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