Posted by erik.f.boberg on 05/03/06 15:33

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:

> 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
>
>
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