comp.lang.ruby

Daniel Waite

4/22/2008 7:08:00 PM

Daniel Waite wrote:
> The documentation for #wday says that the start-of-week is Sunday.
> #cwday says the start-of-week is Monday.
>
> However, in IRB, both methods return the same value. Today is Tuesday
> for me, and they're both returning 2. I'm not sure if it's considering
> Sunday or Monday as its start, because I dunno if it returns 0 for
> start-of-week or 1. The doc makes it sound like it would start at 0, but
> that's not something I want to gamble with.
>
> Anyone know what's going on?

Ah, I see. Start-of-week for #wday is 0, and #cwday is 1. So they will
_appear_ to be in sync until you reach each method's end-of-week, in
which #wday end its run at 6, starting over again at 0. #cwday on the
other hand, ends at 7 and begins its run at 1.

Yay.
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