# .ago

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ago/164125>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 28, 2009, 8:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ago/164125 "2009-03-28T08:14:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 8:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ago/164125/1 "2009-03-28T08:14:03Z")

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Hi  
I have  
m = 1.year.ago.mon #This I get 3

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 But how to get name of month ie March from above?

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Thanks in advance  
Sijo

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**Author:** ![sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ago/164125/2 "2009-03-28T12:34:55Z")

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Hi  
This is a question related to above I tried  
%w(1.year.ago.strftime("%b") 11.month.ago.strftime("%b"))  
I expected [“Mar”,“Apr”]  
But did not work.Could you please correct it?

Sijo

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**Author:** ![sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 9:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ago/164125/3 "2009-03-28T09:35:52Z")

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m = 1.years.ago.strftime(“%b”) #=\> Mar  
m = 1.years.ago.strftime(“%B”) #=\> March

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Sijo Kg  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote:

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–  
[73, 32, 108, 111, 118, 101, 32, 121, 111, 117, 32, 115, 111, 32, 109,  
117,  
99, 104, 33].map{|c| c.chr}.join

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**Author:** ![sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ago/164125/4 "2009-03-28T12:53:42Z")

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2009/3/28 Sijo Kg [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

> Hi  
> This is a question related to above I tried  
> %w(1.year.ago.strftime(“%b”) 11.month.ago.strftime(“%b”))  
> I expected [“Mar”,“Apr”]  
> But did not work.Could you please correct it?

[1.year.ago.strftime(“%b”),11.month.ago.strftime(“%b”)]

Colin