On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Tedd Sperling <tedd.sperl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:37 AM, Ford, Mike wrote: >>> From: Tedd Sperling [mailto:tedd.sperl...@gmail.com] >>> But why does anyone have to use the next month to figure out how >>> many days there are are in this month? Do you see my point? >> >> Actually, no. To figure this out, somewhere along the line you've >> got to know where the last day of this month / first day of next >> month boundary lies, so I don't see how you can ever find the number >> of days in a month without bringing the start of next month into it >> somehow. (Even if it's implicitly be getting someone else's clever >> code to figure out 'last day of this month'!) > > Well no, I don't need to know the first day of next month to know the last > day of this month. That's like saying "I need to know who is going to stand > at the 'end of the line' NEXT before I can tell who is standing at the 'end > of the' line NOW."
The number of days in each month is fixed, except for february. If that's what you want, why don't make a table of the number of days in each month, and check for the special case of leap year. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
