last day of the month

[rurounijones]

I am trying to find a way of getting the last day of a month, for example: last day of last month

I have tried various combos but cannot find anything. I have had a look through the code and it is a bit beyond me. Does anyone know if this can be done?

I should mention that the first day works. Something like "last month first day" or "first day of last month" is fine.

[leejarvis]

There's currently no way of interpreting last as the end of a month. Chronic doesn't contain a month day lookup table except for when constructing Time objects, which is too low level for this. I've labeled this as a feature though, I think it's a great idea.

[jeremywadsack]

How about last day of a month is first day of the next month minus one day? In other words, use the month day lookup that's built into ruby / the OS.

[rurounijones]

That is what I ended up doing for that particular case instead of usng Chronic.

[leejarvis]

@jeremywadsack Yeah that was my intention for this. Just haven't found time to get around to it yet.

[semperos]

It would also be great to have "Last Monday in May" logic (this is US Memorial Day).

[tamouse]

+1 for last weekday of month. Currently doing this:

d = ((x = Chronic::parse("fifth Monday in May")).nil?) ? (Chronic::parse("fourth Monday in May)) : x

[jaredbrown]

+1 for last weekday of month

[timfong888]

+1 last day of the month

[kovpack]

+1 last day of the month

[shrav]

+1 last day of the month

[zedtux]

+1

[zedtux]

Here is how I did it based on @jeremywadsack's comment:

Chronic.parse('1st day next month') - 1.day

[ghost]

This is a much needed feature... any ETA?

My use case: "Last day of next month"

Expected: If today is 14 Feb 2019 -> 31 March 2019