On 11 Okt., 15:26, Michael Guterl <mgut... / gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:07 AM, rel... / bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > Hello.
> > I am Ruby Beginner. Now I am trying to write a code, that calcs days
> > between two dates.
>
> > I ask the user for a date. Then the User type a german Date (for
> > example 12.06.2006). This is working well. Now, what does I have to do
> > to calc the days between now and the date which has the user give in?
>
> > Thanks for your help.
>
> tday = Date.today
> bday = Date.new(2009, 4, 30)
>
> days = (bday - tday).to_i => 201
>
> HTH,
> Michael Guterl

Hi Michael

Thank you for your help. I have now done it with the fallowing code:

datum = Date.Parse(datums)
seconds = Time.Now-datum

This is also working. The variable datums holds a date which is the
user give in over the console. Could there be a problem with my code?

Fridrich