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Days since January 1st, 2008 (See related posts)

// I'm in a challenge to do one pushup and one crunch for each day of the new year. This little Ruby snippet will tell me how many I have to do!

(DateTime.now - DateTime.new(2008,1,1)).to_i
to ruby date new year by mm53bar on Sun Mar 23 18:22:21 -0400 2008

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Caius posts on Mar 27, 2008 at 10:17
Don't forget to 
require "date"
before running this snippet to make 
DateTime
an available class.

require "date"
puts (DateTime.now - DateTime.new(2008,1,1)).to_i
mahlon posts on Mar 30, 2008 at 16:51
p Time.now.yday - 1

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