Posted by Steve on 03/22/07 14:44

"Adam" <anon@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:eh4503d15mqkbdqg40noijlqc8kvobr2jn@4ax.com...
| On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:14:21 -0500, Steve wrote:
|
| >
| >"Adam" <anon@nowhere.com> wrote in message
| >news:a73503hnqjh4bno4b362cnnf8gpbo3fv3k@4ax.com...
| >| On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:46:59 +0000, Geoff Berrow wrote:
| >|
| >| >Message-ID: <bg1503p2n63lufgnaf9cpu9mr6pko0q1ob@4ax.com> from Adam
| >| >contained the following:
| >| >
| >| >>
| >| >>I need to be able to return the corresponding dates for Mondays - and
| >| >>have tried various functions, scripts with varying degrees of
success.
| >| >>date('d-M-Y', strtotime('this monday'));
| >| >>
| >| >>... works, as does:
| >| >>
| >| >>date('d-M-Y', strtotime('last monday'));
| >| >>
| >| >>However, whilst this function works well most of the time, for some
| >| >>reason it pukes on Monday 19th March - and always returns 18th Mar
| >| >>(which is a Sunday!).
| >| >
| >| >Spring forward, fall back?
| >|
| >| Errmm ... you'll have to explain that one to me <!!!> I'm from the UK
| >| - now in NZ. Is that a US term for some sort of daylight saving thing?
| >
| >it's a locale saying to help remember that when the time change occurs,
we
| >know which direction to move the time...in the spring, move the time
forward
| >one hour...in the fall, move it back one hour. hence, spring forward,
fall
| >back.
| >
| >it probably is related to this. however, i'd expect to see it be
problematic
| >to more than just monday, 19 mar 2007. (and this year's time change was
11
| >mar).
| >
| >btw, i never got why we continue to need/use dst. wasn't it originally an
| >agrarian function?
|
| I thought it was so schoolkids got an extra hour of daylight at the
| end of the day - so they don't get knocked down by tired drivers.
| Presumably, they're OK in dark mornings as drivers are rested and more
| alert (not me - I don't do mornings!!!). But I digress ;-)

i don't do mornings either.

as for the truck driver scenario, i doubt it came into play when dsl was
enacted in the us...iirc, ben franklin thought it up...i think it may have
been a horse and buggy at that time. ;^)

it causes much confusion. i hate it. the north america does it one way and
europe does it another. who works by daylight anymore anyway? for those
small niches of occupation that do rely on daylight, why not just burden
them with creating their own work hours rather than having the world submit
itself to them. majority still rules, right?


| BTW - try it. Set your PC clock (or test server if you can) back to
| around 18th Mar (trya few days before or after) and see what
|
| date('d-M-Y', strtotime('this monday'));
|
| gives you.

i have no doubt that this is happening. i'm just suprised that it is only
happening with that one date.

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