# Chronic and Time Spans

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chronic-and-time-spans/177438>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 17, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chronic-and-time-spans/177438 "2009-10-17T03:15:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![MaggotChild](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@MaggotChild](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MaggotChild)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chronic-and-time-spans/177438/1 "2009-10-17T03:15:46Z")

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> Chronic.parse ‘past 2 months’, :guess =\> false  
> =\> Sun Aug 16 18:01:15 -0700 2009…Sun Aug 16 18:01:16 -0700 2009

past 2 months represent time spans not a single day.

> Chronic.parse ‘this past week’, :guess =\> false  
> =\> Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009…Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009

that works, but these don’t:

> Chronic.parse ‘past 2 weeks’, :guess =\> false  
> =\> Sun Oct 02 14:00:00 -0700 2009…Sun Oct 02 14:00:01 -0700 2009

> Chronic.parse ‘this past 2 months’, :guess =\> false  
> =\> Tue Sep 01 14:00:00 -0700 2009…Tue Sep 01 14:00:01 -0700 2009

These are inconsistent. Please tell me I’m missing something.