=begin $Id: date.rb,v 1.8 2004/11/17 05:06:27 sam Exp $ Copyright (C) 2005 Sam Roberts This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the ruby language itself, see the file COPYING for details. =end require 'date' # Extensions to the standard library Date. class Date TIME_START = Date.new(1970, 1, 1) SECS_PER_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 # Converts this object to a Time object, or throws an ArgumentError if # conversion is not possible because it is before the start of epoch. def to_time raise ArgumentError, 'date is before the start of system time' if self < TIME_START days = self - TIME_START Time.at((days * SECS_PER_DAY).to_i) end # If wday responds to to_str, convert it to the wday number by searching for # a wday that matches, using as many characters as are in wday to do the # comparison. wday must be 2 or more characters long in order to be a unique # match, other than that, "mo", "Mon", and "MonDay" are all valid strings # for wday 1. # # This method can be called on a valid wday, and it will return it. Perhaps # it should be called by default inside the Date#new*() methods so that # non-integer wday arguments can be used? Perhaps a similar method should # exist for months? But with months, we all know January is 1, who can # remember where Date chooses to start its wday count! # # Examples: # Date.bywday(2004, 2, Date.str2wday('TU')) => the first Tuesday in # February # Date.bywday(2004, 2, Date.str2wday(2)) => the same day, but notice # that a valid wday integer can be passed right through. # def Date.str2wday(wdaystr) return wdaystr unless wdaystr.respond_to? :to_str str = wdaystr.to_str.upcase if str.length < 2 raise ArgumentError, 'wday #{wday} is not long enough to be a unique weekday name' end wday = Date::DAYNAMES.map { |n| n.slice(0, str.length).upcase }.index(str) return wday if wday raise ArgumentError, 'wday #{wdaystr} was not a recognizable weekday name' end # Create a new Date object for the date specified by year +year+, month # +mon+, and day-of-the-week +wday+. # # The nth, +n+, occurrence of +wday+ within the period will be generated # (+n+ defaults to 1). If +n+ is positive, the nth occurence from the # beginning of the period will be returned, if negative, the nth occurrence # from the end of the period will be returned. # # The period is a year, unless +month+ is non-nil, in which case it is just # that month. # # Examples: # - Date.bywday(2004, nil, 1, 9) => the ninth Sunday of 2004 # - Date.bywday(2004, nil, 1) => the first Sunday of 2004 # - Date.bywday(2004, nil, 1, -2) => the second last Sunday of 2004 # - Date.bywday(2004, 12, 1) => the first sunday in the 12th month of 2004 # - Date.bywday(2004, 2, 2, -1) => last Tuesday in the 2nd month in 2004 # - Date.bywday(2004, -2, 3, -2) => second last Wednesday in the second last month of 2004 # # Compare this to Date.new, which allows a Date to be created by # day-of-the-month, mday, to Date.new2, which allows a Date to be created by # day-of-the-year, yday, and to Date.neww, which allows a Date to be created # by day-of-the-week, but within a specific week. def Date.bywday(year, mon, wday, n = 1, sg=Date::ITALY) # Normalize mon to 1-12. if mon if mon > 12 || mon == 0 || mon < -12 raise ArgumentError, "mon #{mon} must be 1-12 or negative 1-12" end if mon < 0 mon = 13 + mon end end if wday < 0 || wday > 6 raise ArgumentError, 'wday must be in range 0-6, or a weekday name' end # Determine direction of indexing. inc = n <=> 0 if inc == 0 raise ArgumentError, 'n must be greater or less than zero' end # if !mon, n is index into year, but direction of search is determined by # sign of n d = Date.new(year, mon ? mon : inc, inc, sg) while d.wday != wday d += inc end # Now we have found the first/last day with the correct wday, search # for nth occurrence, by jumping by n.abs-1 weeks forward or backward. d += 7 * (n.abs - 1) * inc if d.year != year raise ArgumentError, 'n is out of bounds of year' end if mon && d.mon != mon raise ArgumentError, 'n is out of bounds of month' end d end end # DateGen generates arrays of dates matching simple criteria. class DateGen # Generate an array of dates on +wday+ (the day-of-week, # 0-6, where 0 is Sunday). # # If +n+ is specified, only the nth occurrence of +wday+ within the period # will be generated. If +n+ is positive, the nth occurence from the # beginning of the period will be returned, if negative, the nth occurrence # from the end of the period will be returned. # # The period is a year, unless +month+ is non-nil, in which case it is just # that month. # # Examples: # - DateGen.bywday(2004, nil, 1, 9) => the ninth Sunday in 2004 # - DateGen.bywday(2004, nil, 1) => all Sundays in 2004 # - DateGen.bywday(2004, nil, 1, -2) => second last Sunday in 2004 # - DateGen.bywday(2004, 12, 1) => all sundays in December 2004 # - DateGen.bywday(2004, 2, 2, -1) => last Tuesday in February in 2004 # - DateGen.bywday(2004, -2, 3, -2) => second last Wednesday in November of 2004 # # Compare to Date.bywday(), which allows a single Date to be created with # similar criteria. def DateGen.bywday(year, month, wday, n = nil) seed = Date.bywday(year, month, wday, n ? n : 1) dates = [ seed ] return dates if n succ = seed.clone # Collect all matches until we're out of the year (or month, if specified) loop do succ += 7 break if succ.year != year break if month && succ.month != seed.month dates.push succ end dates.sort! dates end # Generate an array of dates on +mday+ (the day-of-month, 1-31). For months # in which the +mday+ is not present, no date will be generated. # # The period is a year, unless +month+ is non-nil, in which case it is just # that month. # # Compare to Date.new(), which allows a single Date to be created with # similar criteria. def DateGen.bymonthday(year, month, mday) months = month ? [ month ] : 1..12 dates = [ ] months.each do |m| begin dates << Date.new(year, m, mday) rescue ArgumentError # Don't generate dates for invalid combinations (Feb 29, when it's not # a leap year, for example). # # TODO - should we raise when month is out of range, or mday can never # be in range (32)? end end dates end end