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Date.valid_civil?

(::Integer year, ::Integer month, ::Integer mday, ?::Integer start) -> bool
Date.valid_civil?(year, month, mday, start = Date::ITALY) → true or false

Returns true if the arguments define a valid ordinal date, false otherwise:

Example
Date.valid_date?(2001, 2, 3)  # => true
Date.valid_date?(2001, 2, 29) # => false
Date.valid_date?(2001, 2, -1) # => true

See argument start.

Related: Date.jd, Date.new.

See also .today .valid_commercial? .strptime .valid_date? also in 4.1 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0