From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-12-27T07:38:51+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question on how to subtract two dates.

On Saturday, December 27, 2003, 9:16:38 AM, Jamis wrote:

>   yesterday = Time.now - 24 * 60 * 60

> (Incidentally, I looked at the Date class documentation... I already
> knew how to do Date arithmetic in Ruby and knew what I was looking for,
> and it still took me a while to find where in the documentation it talks
> about how to subtract some value x from a date to get another date.
> Since this is a fairly common operation on dates, could this be given as
> an example somewhere near the front of the docs?  I know I would never
> have found it there if I didn't already know what it was I wanted to do,
> and how to do it.)


Thanks for the tip.  I'll update the docs soon.

Cheers,
Gavin