Re: [PHP] Strtotime returns 02/09/2008 for "next Saturday"....

On 31/01/2008, Mike Morton <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ya - the other server is 4.4.7

However - this does not seem to be the problem necessarily:

print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next saturday"));
02/09/2008

print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next sunday"));
02/10/2008

print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next monday"));
02/11/2008

print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next tuesday"));
02/12/2008

print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next wednesday"));
02/13/2008

print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next thursday"));
02/07/2008

So from today to next Thursday, the dates are all 1 week off....?

On 1/31/08 11:03 AM, "Tom Chubb" <tomchubb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 31/01/2008, Mike Morton <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been using:

$nextSaturday= date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next saturday"));

For months long time now with out problems, but in the last two days,
it
went kind of funky. It is now returning:

02/09/2008 instead of the expected 02/02/2008. I have tried the same
code
on another server and different version of PHP,and it works ok.

More info:

Shell date: Thu Jan 31 09:44:50 EST 2008
echo date("Y-m-d g:i A T", time()); = 2008-01-31 10:00 AM EST
echo date("Y-m-d g:i A T", strtotime("next saturday")); = 2008-02-09
12:00
AM EST

version: 4.3.9 (highest version we can have at the moment)

I could not find this in the known bugs from this version....

So - is this something that is server or version specific?

TIA!

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The manual says:
*Warning*

In PHP versions prior to 4.4.0, *"next"* is incorrectly computed as +2.
A
typical solution to this is to use *"+1"*.

Dunno if that helps you out? Is the other server > 4.4.0?
http://uk3.php.net/strtotime

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An example that may help:

when using strtotime("wednesday"), you will get different results whether
you ask before or after wednesday, since strtotime always looks ahead to the
*next* weekday.

strtotime() does not seem to support forms like "this wednesday", "wednesday
this week", etc.

the following function addresses this by always returns the same specific
weekday (1st argument) within the *same* week as a particular date (2nd
argument).

function weekday($day="", $now="") {

$now = $now ? $now : "now";
$day = $day ? $day : "now";

$rel = date("N", strtotime($day)) - date("N");

$time = strtotime("$rel days", strtotime($now));

return date("Y-m-d", $time);

}

example use:

weekday("wednesday"); // returns wednesday of this week
weekday("monday, "-1 week"); // return monday the in previous week

ps! the ? : statements are included because strtotime("") without gives 1
january 1970 rather than the current time which in my opinion would be more
intuitive...

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