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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/03/06 19:38
Paul Lautman wrote:
> Sounds likely. Is this documented anywhere?
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> erik.f.boberg@gmail.com wrote:
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>>It is probably due to one day every year being 25 hours in php. its a
>>day in october i think and the reason is related to daylight savings
>>time i think. I had the same problem while making a calendar for my
>>homepage a while ago.
>>
>>Andy Jeffries skrev:
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>>>On Wed, 03 May 2006 13:05:25 +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)
>>>>
>>>>Nice one. I didn't think of that. Still like to know why the other
>>>>one was so wierd.
>>>
>>>No idea.... I tend not to get hung up on problems when I've found a
>>>solution though, life's too short ;-)
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>>Andy
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Andy Jeffries MBCS CITP ZCE | gPHPEdit Lead Developer
>>>http://www.gphpedit.org | PHP editor for Gnome 2
>>>http://www.andyjeffries.co.uk | Personal site and photos
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Yep, it's called Daylight Savings Time in the United States. Last Sunday in
October at 2AM clocks are set back to 1AM.
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