Date#-() is a Date class method which returns the difference between two dates if the object is date type object.
Syntax: Date.-()
Parameter: Date values
Return: difference between two dates
Example #1 :
require 'date'
a = Date.new(2019, 1, 1)
b = Date.jd(2452004)
c = Date.ordinal(2019, 12)
puts "Date a : #{a}\n\n"
puts "Date b : #{b}\n\n"
puts "Date c : #{c}\n\n\n\n"
puts "Date a - form : #{a - Rational(3, 2)}\n\n"
puts "Date b - form : #{b - Rational(10, 2)}\n\n"
puts "Date c - form : #{c - Rational(10, 4)}\n\n"
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Output :
Date a : 2019-01-01
Date b : 2001-04-04
Date c : 2019-01-12
Date a - form : 2018-12-30
Date b - form : 2001-03-30
Date c - form : 2019-01-09
Example #2 :
require 'date'
a = Date.parse('2019-01-01')
b = Date.strptime('03-12-2019', '%d-%m-%Y')
c = Date.commercial(2019, 5, 6)
puts "Date a : #{a}\n\n"
puts "Date b : #{b}\n\n"
puts "Date c : #{c}\n\n\n\n"
puts "Date a - form : #{a - Rational(3, 2)}\n\n"
puts "Date b - form : #{b - Rational(10, 2)}\n\n"
puts "Date c - form : #{c - Rational(10, 4)}\n\n"
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Output :
Date a : 2019-01-01
Date b : 2019-12-03
Date c : 2019-02-02
Date a - form : 2018-12-30
Date b - form : 2019-11-28
Date c - form : 2019-01-30
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Last Updated :
09 Jan, 2020
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