# Days in this month

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/days-in-this-month/53337>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 1, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/days-in-this-month/53337 "2006-02-01T23:28:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![misiek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@misiek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/misiek)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/days-in-this-month/53337/1 "2006-02-01T23:28:09Z")

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How to get int of how many days got this month ?

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**Author:** ![misiek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@misiek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/misiek)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/days-in-this-month/53337/2 "2006-02-01T23:31:12Z")

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misiek [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes:

> How to get int of how many days got this month ?

You can look at the month\_days method of the Time class.

I don’t know why this method is private, though.

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**Author:** ![misiek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@misiek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/misiek)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/days-in-this-month/53337/3 "2006-02-01T23:34:17Z")

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On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, misiek wrote:

> How to get int of how many days got this month ?

[http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse\_thread/thread/6ce1b213b4bcd68b/82b296f0bbc1b1dd?q=howard+days+in+month&rnum=1#82b296f0bbc1b1dd](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/6ce1b213b4bcd68b/82b296f0bbc1b1dd?q=howard+days+in+month&rnum=1#82b296f0bbc1b1dd)

hth.

-a

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**Author:** ![misiek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@misiek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/misiek)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/days-in-this-month/53337/4 "2006-02-01T23:34:18Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, misiek wrote:
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> > How to get int of how many days got this month ?
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> [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse\_thread/thread/6ce1b213b4bcd68b/82b296f0bbc1b1dd?q=howard+days+in+month&rnum=1#82b296f0bbc1b1dd](http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/6ce1b213b4bcd68b/82b296f0bbc1b1dd?q=howard+days+in+month&rnum=1#82b296f0bbc1b1dd)

thank you that is what I need