From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2012-11-29T19:09:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble with Chronic


On Nov 29, 2012, at 01:45 , Joel Pearson <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I've decided to try Chronic to make it easier (hopefully) to get certain
> dates.
> I've gotten most of the way there, I'm just stuck on the syntax for the
> last day of last month.
> 
> Chronic.parse('first day of last month')
> => 2012-10-01
> 
> That works, but I've tried 'end day of last month', 'final day of last
> month', 'last day of last month', and many others. I just can't work out
> the syntax it needs.


I don't see how throwing tons of code at something so basic is (that much) easier:

  ruby19          -rdate -e 't = Date.today; puts t - t.day'

To really get the point across, look at how much it does to calculate this:

  ruby19 -rtracer -rdate -e 't = Date.today; puts t - t.day'

vs:

  ruby19 -rtracer -e 'require "chronic"; Chronic.parse("first day of this month") - 86400'