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advance

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advance(options) public

Uses Date to provide precise Time calculations for years, months, and days. The options parameter takes a hash with any of these keys: :years, :months, :weeks, :days, :hours, :minutes, :seconds.

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/date_time/calculations.rb, line 51
  def advance(options)
    d = to_date.advance(options)
    datetime_advanced_by_date = change(:year => d.year, :month => d.month, :day => d.day)
    seconds_to_advance = (options[:seconds] || 0) + (options[:minutes] || 0) * 60 + (options[:hours] || 0) * 3600
    seconds_to_advance == 0 ? datetime_advanced_by_date : datetime_advanced_by_date.since(seconds_to_advance)
  end

September 9, 2011 - (v3.0.9)

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Time.now.advance(:days => +2, :hours => +8)

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