On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:22 AM, <relzne / bluewin.ch> wrote: > 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? Well, there's no Now method.