On Apr 13, 11:23 pm, Daniel Waite <rabbitb... / gmail.com> wrote: > Ack, some amendments... > > Is there _another_ way to get at the result of that operation (an > integer) besides the one I posted above? > > And, I suppose a better title would have been "Faster date math." > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. irb(main):001:0> ((Date.today + 90) - Date.today).to_i => 90 Subtracting Dates from each other returns a Rational. irb(main):002:0> (Date.today + 90) - Date.today => Rational(90, 1) You can just coerce that into an integer. No intermediate Array required. HTH, Chris