>
> I downloaded runt to do some temporal expression work, and
> was wondering if there's any way to match against a year. 
> From what I can tell I can match against month, day, hour,
> min, sec, but not the year.

Well, strictly speaking you could use a DateRange constructed
with January 1st and December 31st of the year(s) in question but this
is a pain...

>  Basically I'd like to have a timex that matches all dates
> with the year 2005.  If I create a date that has the year
> 2006, then include?
> should return false for that particular date.  Am I missing
> something in the docs?  I'd appreciate any help.
>
> Pat
>
> 

I've just added the following class to CVS (apologize if Outlook mangles
the layout)

# Simple expression which returns true if the supplied arguments
# occur within the given year.
#
class YearTE

  def initialize(year)
    @year = year
  end

  def include?(date)
    return date.year == @year
  end

end


For an example of usage see the test case in
test/temporalexpressiontest.rb. Here's an excerpt:

def test_year_te

  # second sun of any month 
  second_sun = DIMonth.new(Second, Sunday)

  # simple year matching expression which will return true for
  # any date in 2005
  year_te = YearTE.new(2005)

  # Second Sunday of a month in 2002
  dt_in_2002 = Date.civil(2002,9,8)

  # Second Sunday of a month in 2005
  dt_in_2005 = Date.civil(2005,12,11)

  # Matches
  assert(year_te.include?(dt_in_2005))

  # Does not match
  assert(!year_te.include?(dt_in_2002))
end


Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions or problems. 

Thanks for using Runt!

Matt