mktime() == a.m. or p.m.????

[TheGringo]

I'm using the following code to calculate a date during a business week:

function DateAddBusinessDays($i){
$d = mktime(date('g'),date('i'),0,date('n'),date('j'),date('Y')) ;
 do {
$d = mktime(date('g',$d),date('i',$d),0,date('n',$d),date('j',$d)+1,date('Y',$d)) ;

   $dow = date('D',$d);
   switch ($dow) {
       case 'Sat':
       case 'Sun':
         break;
       default:
         $i--;
       }
 } while ($i>0);
 return $d;
}

Works well except that it always shows "a.m." instead of correctly showing "a.m." or "p.m" as needed. What is the problem here?

oh yeah, I'm formatting the date thusly:
$d = date("F j, Y, g:i a" , $d);

[jpmoriarty]

dont really know but won't you need to do something like:

if(date("a")=="pm)
$d = mktime(date('g')+12,date('i'),0,date('n'),date('j'),d
ate('Y')) ;
else
$d = mktime(date('g'),date('i'),0,date('n'),date('j'),d
ate('Y')) ;

to take account of the 12 hour shift?

Or cant you just use the 24 hour clock? (G instead of g in the date())

[TheGringo]

Thank you! Changing 'g' to 'G' did the trick. 🙂

[Weedpacket]

If you're just trying to add one day to a date $d, then instead of writing

mktime(date('g',$d),date('i',$d),0,date('n',$d),date('j',$d)+1,date('Y',$d))

you could just say

strtotime('+1 day', $d)

which is probably easier to read.