>
> To fix this very particular problem, you could try (untested)
> strtotime("last Sunday 12:00") and it should/might return the EPOC for
> lunch
> time that day (assuming it's only the date that matters to you, and not the
> time).
>
> I'm guessing the problem your having is that strtotime("last Sunday") is

returning the EPOC for midnight which is being translated as Saturday 11pm.
>
> strtotime always made me feel uneasy. Feeling confirmed.


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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Nathan Kennedy <
[email protected]> wrote:





> HTH.
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Brendan Brink
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:06 a.m.
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [phpug] Daylight Saving
>
> hi there,
>
> the date is echoing correctly currently to the right time and day
>
> the issue is when i use strtotime("last Sunday") it shows its a
> Saturday? (25th September) instead of Sunday 26th September
>
> this is so frustrating...
>
> any advice?
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Aaron Cooper <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Just to clarify, I mention 2008 and 2009 as I think 2008 was when the
> > government DST changes occurred.
> >
> > Easy test is to echo a date() and see what it says. If it's an hour out,
> you
> > need an update.
> >
> > http://www.electrictoolbox.com/correct-php-timezone/
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Aaron Cooper
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 9:49 AM
> > Subject: Re: [phpug] Daylight Saving
> > As Rimu says, check the PHP timezonedb. Although I would have thought you
> > would lose an entire day out of it (except at 11pm).
> >
> > And that said, one would think the same server should have had this
> problem
> > in 2008 and 2009 if it is the sole culprit and the server was running
> sites
> > using any date function.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Rimu Atkinson
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 9:35 AM
> > Subject: Re: [phpug] Daylight Saving
> > There is an internal database that php has of when different places have
> > daylight savings time, and yours is probably out of date. Look at the
> output
> > of phpinfo() to see the date of the time zone database.
> >
> > R
> >
> > On 29/09/10 09:26, Brendan Brink wrote:
> >
> > Hi there all,
> >
> > Had an issue on the weekend with some code showing the date Saturday
> > 25th instead of the Sunday 26th...and only thing I can put it down to
> > is a possible daylight saving conundrum...
> >
> > some of the code I had was this:
> > define("WEEKENDING",strtotime("next Sunday"));
> >
> >
> > wonder if anyone else had had a similar finding or perhaps can shed
> > some light on how daylight saving works with PHP...
> >
> >
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