method
advance
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advance(options)
public
Uses Date to provide precise Time calculations for years, months, and days according to the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The result is returned as a new TimeWithZone object.
The options parameter takes a hash with any of these keys: :years, :months, :weeks, :days, :hours, :minutes, :seconds.
If advancing by a value of variable length (i.e., years, weeks, months, days), move forward from #time, otherwise move forward from #utc, for accuracy when moving across DST boundaries.
Time.zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)' # => 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)' now = Time.zone.now # => Sun, 02 Nov 2014 01:26:28 EDT -04:00 now.advance(seconds: 1) # => Sun, 02 Nov 2014 01:26:29 EDT -04:00 now.advance(minutes: 1) # => Sun, 02 Nov 2014 01:27:28 EDT -04:00 now.advance(hours: 1) # => Sun, 02 Nov 2014 01:26:28 EST -05:00 now.advance(days: 1) # => Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:26:28 EST -05:00 now.advance(weeks: 1) # => Sun, 09 Nov 2014 01:26:28 EST -05:00 now.advance(months: 1) # => Tue, 02 Dec 2014 01:26:28 EST -05:00 now.advance(years: 1) # => Mon, 02 Nov 2015 01:26:28 EST -05:00