Date#<<() is a Date class method which returns the date object pointing ‘n’ (numeric value argument) months before self.
Syntax: Date.<<()
Parameter: Date values
Return: date object pointing n months before self. The argument n should be a numeric value.
Example #1 :
# Ruby code for Date.<<() method # loading date require 'date'
# declaring Date a = Date. new ( 2019 , 1 , 1 )
# declaring Date b = Date.jd( 2452004 )
# declaring Date c = Date.ordinal( 2019 , 12 )
# Date puts "Date a : #{a}\n\n"
puts "Date b : #{b}\n\n"
puts "Date c : #{c}\n\n\n\n"
# << form 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 : 2018-11-01 Date b << form : 2000-11-04 Date c << form : 2018-10-12
Example #2 :
# Ruby code for Date.<<() method # loading date require 'date'
# declaring Date a = Date.parse( '2019-01-01' )
# declaring Date b = Date.strptime( '03-12-2019' , '%d-%m-%Y' )
# declaring Date c = Date.commercial( 2019 , 5 , 6 )
# Date puts "Date a : #{a}\n\n"
puts "Date b : #{b}\n\n"
puts "Date c : #{c}\n\n\n\n"
# << form 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 : 2018-11-01 Date b << form : 2019-07-03 Date c << form : 2018-11-02