Posted by Andy Jeffries on 05/03/06 13:35

On Wed, 03 May 2006 11:32:58 +0100, Paul Lautman wrote:

> I was trying to use the following formula to add a number of weeks to a
> date, where $b is the number of weeks. date('Y-m-d',
> strtotime($Expiry_Date)+$b*86400*7) However sometimes it added one day
> less than it should have done. $Expiry_Date was always a Saturday and
> sometimes the answer was a Saturday and sometimes the previous Friday.
>
> Has anyone any idea why?

No idea, but why not use two strtotime calls:

strtotime("+$b weeks", strtotime($Expiry_Date));

That would be a better native way of handling it (and more readable)

Cheers,


Andy


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