Good point ;)
Except that generally, when am told "next Saturday" - I take that to mean
"the next Saturday" - just one more ambiguity in the english language that
makes it so hard to learn I suppose!
The odd thing about this whole situation it that it seems to have cropped up
just after we "upgraded" to 4.3.9 - prior to that, "next Saturday" worked
just peachy. I wish I knew which version we were running before that - but
that record was not kept.
I guess we are stuck with this, what maybe is a problem with this version,
until the Redhat RPM gets higher than 4.3.9 - since that is what our server
manager uses for updates....
I could always adjust it to be:
date("m/d/Y",strtotime("+ ".(6-date("w"))." days"));
That should always return the next Saturday of the week, and if I am correct
in my thinking, then even on the Saturday, 6-6 = 0 - which would return that
day... Which does, at least for my application of it, work.
I am not sure how the bug that "next" = +2 rather than +1 applys here, maybe
it is just not understanding how exactly the "next whatever" syntax is
applied....
On 1/31/08 12:57 PM, "Richard Lynch" <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe it's just me, but I've never quite figured out what people mean
> when they say "next Saturday"...
>
> Do they mean the next one coming up?
>
> Or do they mean that there's "this Saturday" coming up and "next
> Saturday" the one after that?
>
> And if I can't figure it out, why would you expect PHP to figure it out?
>
> :-)
>
> On Thu, January 31, 2008 10:27 am, Mike Morton wrote:
>> Ya - the other server is 4.4.7
>>
>> However - this does not seem to be the problem necessarily:
>>
>> print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next saturday"));
>> 02/09/2008
>>
>> print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next sunday"));
>> 02/10/2008
>>
>> print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next monday"));
>> 02/11/2008
>>
>> print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next tuesday"));
>> 02/12/2008
>>
>> print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next wednesday"));
>> 02/13/2008
>>
>> print date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next thursday"));
>> 02/07/2008
>>
>> So from today to next Thursday, the dates are all 1 week off....?
>>
>> On 1/31/08 11:03 AM, "Tom Chubb" <tomchubb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 31/01/2008, Mike Morton <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have been using:
>>>>
>>>> $nextSaturday= date("m/d/Y",strtotime("next saturday"));
>>>>
>>>> For months long time now with out problems, but in the last two
>>>> days, it
>>>> went kind of funky. It is now returning:
>>>>
>>>> 02/09/2008 instead of the expected 02/02/2008. I have tried the
>>>> same code
>>>> on another server and different version of PHP,and it works ok.
>>>>
>>>> More info:
>>>>
>>>> Shell date: Thu Jan 31 09:44:50 EST 2008
>>>> echo date("Y-m-d g:i A T", time()); = 2008-01-31 10:00 AM EST
>>>> echo date("Y-m-d g:i A T", strtotime("next saturday")); =
>>>> 2008-02-09 12:00
>>>> AM EST
>>>>
>>>> version: 4.3.9 (highest version we can have at the moment)
>>>>
>>>> I could not find this in the known bugs from this version....
>>>>
>>>> So - is this something that is server or version specific?
>>>>
>>>> TIA!
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>> The manual says:
>>> *Warning*
>>>
>>> In PHP versions prior to 4.4.0, *"next"* is incorrectly computed as
>>> +2. A
>>> typical solution to this is to use *"+1"*.
>>>
>>> Dunno if that helps you out? Is the other server > 4.4.0?
>>> http://uk3.php.net/strtotime
>>
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>>
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