I just don’t understand this and leap years make this problem obvious to
me…
test = DateTime.now
=> #<DateTime: 53017684949923739/21600000000,-7/24,2299161>
test.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
=> “2008-02-25”
test = DateTime.now + 365
=> #<DateTime: 70700758603797619/28800000000,-7/24,2299161>
test.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
=> “2009-02-24”
seems reasonable, off a day because of leap year…
test = DateTime.now + 1.year
=> #<DateTime: 1469323689922559749/43200000000,-7/24,2299161>
test.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
=> “88409-12-04”
how do I add a simple year?
Craig
Craig W. wrote:
how do I add a simple year?
Craig
I did DateTime.now.year will give 2008. DateTime.now.year + 1 give 2009
On 25 Feb 2008, at 23:52, Craig W. wrote:
=> #<DateTime: 70700758603797619/28800000000,-7/24,2299161>
how do I add a simple year?
Time.now.next_year
Don’t use DateTime.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
On Feb 25, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Craig W. wrote:
test = DateTime.now + 365
how do I add a simple year?
Craig
Hi Craig,
You might find this interesting:
Peace,
Phillip
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 00:03 +0100, Peter De Berdt wrote:
how do I add a simple year?
Time.now.next_year
Don’t use DateTime.
gotcha…
this is really painful,
test = ((DateTime.now.year + 1).to_s + “-” + DateTime.now.month.to_s +
“-” + DateTime.now.day.to_s).to_date
but I do need dates so I have to convert back to a date but thankfully,
that isn’t so hard to do.
Thanks
Craig
On Feb 25, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Peter De Berdt wrote:
test = DateTime.now + 365
how do I add a simple year?
Time.now.next_year
Don’t use DateTime.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
Well, since DateTime < Date, you can
test >>= 12
to advance test by 12 months. (and if you try in 4 days (on
2008-02-29), the result will be 2009-02-28 
But you probably want either a Date or a Time anyway.
-Rob
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