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Hi,

I have an ordinal date string and I want to change it to an ordinary
date string. For example: 2005/1 should give January 1, 2005. I see
ordinal in the Date class but I need a simple example. Thanks,

Dave

davyb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an ordinal date string and I want to change it to an ordinary
> date string. For example: 2005/1 should give January 1, 2005. I see
> ordinal in the Date class but I need a simple example. Thanks,
>
> Dave

irb(main):001:0> require 'date'
irb(main):002:0> d = Date.( 2005, 321)
irb(main):003:0> d.to_s
=> '2005-11-17'
irb(main):004:0> d.asctime
=> "Thu Nov 17 00:00:00 2005"
irb(main):005:0> p "#{d.month}/#{d.day}/#{d.year}"
=> "11/17/2005"


There may be other methods/ways/formats, but those are what caught my
attention at first.

Todd

Somewhat off-topic, but I notice that neither of you have registered.

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Registration is extremely painless and the rewards are significant!!


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On 11/18/05, J. Merrill <> wrote:
> Somewhat off-topic, but I notice that neither of you have registered.

Actually, it's *extremely* off-topic, as most of us do not read
ruby-talk through the ruby-forum interface, but rather through the
mailing list or the newsgroup.

-austin
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On 11/18/05, Austin Ziegler <> wrote:

> Actually, it's *extremely* off-topic, as most of us do not read
> ruby-talk through the ruby-forum interface, but rather through the
> mailing list or the newsgroup.

I think the ruby-forum is neat but as a minor whine, I don't see why
all the posts from ruby-forum need to be stamped with a "Posted
via..." message.

This gets kinda SPAMmy, in my not at all humble opinion.

I am not against advocating ruby-forum, I just don't see why every
message needs to be tagged with that message.

On 11/18/05, Gregory Brown <> wrote:
>
> I am not against advocating ruby-forum, I just don't see why every
> message needs to be tagged with that message.

I strongly agree. I would recommend removing the tagline and adding a
new header to indicate the message was posted from Ruby Forum. That
way if someone or something (aka a program) wishes to analyze messages
from Ruby Forum, they can easily and reliably see which messages are
from the forum.

Maybe:

X-Posted-Via: Ruby Forum

Ryan

Ryan Leavengood <> wrote:
> On 11/18/05, Gregory Brown <> wrote:
> >
> > I am not against advocating ruby-forum, I just don't see why every
> > message needs to be tagged with that message.
>
> I strongly agree. I would recommend removing the tagline and adding a
> new header to indicate the message was posted from Ruby Forum. That
> way if someone or something (aka a program) wishes to analyze messages
> from Ruby Forum, they can easily and reliably see which messages are
> from the forum.

OTOH there's something to be said for leaving it in place at least a
couple of months - it's fairly inoffensive and provides some visibility
for the fledgling forum interface.

martin

On 11/18/05, Martin DeMello <> wrote:

> OTOH there's something to be said for leaving it in place at least a
> couple of months - it's fairly inoffensive and provides some visibility
> for the fledgling forum interface.

At the very least it should be an option for registered users to turn on or=
off.
It reminds me way too much of "Do you yahoo?"

Besides, if it's useful (which i think it is), there are plenty of
other places to evangelize it and word of mouth will spread as well.