Daniel Liebig wrote: > Hi, > > i'm trying to get the last day of a month with chronic. Since chronic > seems to use 'last' as keyword in a sence like "back from now" this > does't give a result > > Chronic.parse("last day of this month") > > i tried also 'latest' and 'end' instead of 'last' with no result. I > couldn't find an appropriate example in the documentation > http://chronic.rubyforge.org/ , neither i could find an exact > documentation of all valid keywords. > > Any hints? > > Thx for any help > Regards > Daniel > > Chronic.parse('1 day before next month', {:guess => false}) => Wed Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2007..Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Chronic.parse('1 day before next month', {:guess => false}).begin => Wed Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Which is a little weird because generally you're not asking for distances in smaller units than the anchor, but it still works. =) Tom