Dave Goodchild wrote: > Hi all. I have an online events directory and am having some issues with > date calculations. I have a table of dates (next year) and an events table > - which have a many to many relationship and so use an intermediary > mapping table called dates_events. All good - when the user enters a > single, multi-day, daily or monthly event the event is entered into its > table and some calculations done to enter values in the mapping table. > When I perform a search all the events fall on their specified dates. > > Apart from weekly events that is. When a user enters a weekly event, the > system looks at the start and end dates, finds out the ids of all the > dates in the date table in increments of 7, and adds the mappings. > > When the weekly events are viewed, every 4 weeks they shift forward by one > day over the week. There is some kind of ominous pattern here, but the > maths is very simple (increment by 7) and so i thought I'd see if anyone > can spot this right away before I dedicate my weekend to poring through > PHP and mySQL date maths. > > Thanks in advance! > Have you checked that daylight saving times changes don't interfere with your calculations? Cheers -- David Robley It's not the principle of the thing, it's the money Today is Setting Orange, the 3rd day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3172. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
