comp.lang.ruby

Eric I.

8/10/2008 4:33:00 PM

On Aug 10, 11:52 am, aidy <aidy.le...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how I can add 10 days to this date format please?
>
> Time.now.localtime.strftime("%d-%b-%Y")

SECONDS_PER_DAY = 60 * 60 * 24
(Time.now + 10*SECONDS_PER_DAY).localtime.strftime("%d-%b-%Y")

Ideally you want to do the date/time manipulations before converting
to a String. Otherwise you have to parse the string, do the date
manipulations, and convert back to a String.

Eric

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