Thread: R: find last day of month

R: find last day of month

From
"Luciano Bastianello "
Date:
>> "Andrus Moor" <eetasoft@online.ee> writes:
>>
>>> I have a table containing month column in format mm.yyyy
>>>
>>> create table months ( tmkuu c(7));
>>> insert into months values ('01.2005');
>>> insert into months values ('02.2005');
>>>
>>> How to create select statement which converts this column to date
>>> type containing last day of month like
>>>
>>> '2005-01-31'
>>> '2005-02-28'
>>
>> The usual trick is to split it into year and month, add 1 to the
>> month, if that's > 12, jump to 1, and add a year.
>>
>> Based on those...  Construct the first day of the NEXT month.

Try this (my date is current_date):
select date_trunc('month', current_date + '1 month'::interval) - '1 day'::interval

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