[Resolved] Date() is screwing up???

levelwave

Why is this returning the date for next thursday instead of next friday?

return date( "m/d/y",strtotime( "next friday") );

tekky

Originally posted by levelwave
Why is this returning the date for next thursday instead of next friday?
return date( "m/d/y",strtotime( "next friday") );
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Nobody can answer this without a bit more information... I would suggest checking the web hosts date/time settings if all that is right then... we'll have to come up with some more ideas...

you may also try

return date( "l, F jS Y",strtotime( "next friday") );

that would certainly test the computers date/clock as it should return

Friday, October 29th 2004

levelwave

return date( "l, F jS Y",strtotime( "next friday") );

No that should return the date of NEXT Friday... but even that returns the date for next Thursday - November 4th.

The Server (Windows 2000 Server) is giving the correct dates for everything else and the time is set correctly.

levelwave

Ok I've run this on two different servers and they're both giving the wrong date. I wonder if this is a known bug in the Date() function. PHP4

tekky

Originally posted by levelwave
No that should return the date of NEXT Friday... but even that returns the date for next Thursday - November 4th.

The Server (Windows 2000 Server) is giving the correct dates for everything else and the time is set correctly.

Heh 29th is NEXT friday 😛 I did try to find out if next friday went +7 days and then to friday or not but couldnt find a reference on it.... so it COULD view it as 29th or 4th I suppose, anyhow, I do recall reading about some windows system having issues with date()... I'll dig around and see if I can find it again

levelwave

Hmmmm.... The way I understand it (or thought I did anyway) was that strtotime("Friday") gave you This upcoming friday and "next friday" gave you the date for Friday on the following week. I dunno now.

tekky

try doing "+1 week Friday"

also found this

kiscix at hotmail dot com
05-Apr-2004 01:37
Sometime due to Timezone,
strtotime('last sunday') will return the last saturday.

To be sure that will never happen, use strtotime('last sunday 12:00:00')
till\at\klimpong\dot\com
26-Feb-2004 12:51
"next" is the equivalent of "second". So for example, if you want the date of the second Monday in March, 2004:

<?php
echo date("Y-m-d",strtotime("next Monday",mktime(0,0,0,3,0, 2004)));
?>

"next" does not mean, "next week", as one could imagine. ;-)

levelwave

That worked.... strange. Thanks.

tekky

Originally posted by levelwave
That worked.... strange. Thanks.

Yah thats from the php.net user comments section on DATE() I found a lot of the stuff mentioned there quite weird 😉 but hey if it works... thats what matters...

dont forget to mark resolved 🙂