What is yday attribute in Ruby?
Overview
The yday attribute in Ruby is used to return the day of the year. There are 365 days (366 days for leap years) in a year. So, this method returns an integer that represents the day of the year, from 1 to 366.
Syntax
time_obj.yday
Syntax to get the year of the day in Ruby
Return value
This attribute returns an integer from 1 to 365 (366 for leap years).
Example
# create time objectstime_now = Time.now # current timetime_five_hours = Time.at(946702800)time_year_2021 = Time.new(2021)time_wednesday_1993 = Time.local(1993, 2, 24)# call the yday method# and print resultsputs time_now.ydayputs time_five_hours.ydayputs time_year_2021.ydayputs time_wednesday_1993.yday
Explanation
- Line 2: We create a time object using the
Time.nowattribute that returns the current time object. - Line 3: We use the
Time.at()method to create a time object by passing the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. - Line 4: We use the
Time.new()method to create a new time object by passing it the year 2021. - Line 5: We use the
Time.local()method to create a time object by passing in the year, month, and day of the month. - Lines 9 to 12: We call the
ydayattribute on the time objects we created and print their results to the console.