--- Gordon Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/11/05, Ian Bambury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What version of PHP are you using that
> >
> > echo date("l","2005-08-13");
> > doesn't give you "Thursday"?
>
> Yes, but ALL dates gave me thursday (or Wednesday) - using the above
> scenario on my database...
And the reason why they gave you the same date is that the string "2005-08-13"
is the wrong input for the second argument of the date function. For example,
today is Tuesday so if you wanted just the current server day you would use:
print date("l"); // no second argument
If you wanted the day of the week for a specific day:
print date("l", strtotime("2005-08-13"));
The "string to time" function accepts a wide range of inputs (not absolutely
everything but just about) and converts them into an integer of the number of
seconds since an epoch date. For Unix-type systems this is midnight 1 Jan
1970. Windows systems may use 1 Jan 1980. The old MacOS 8, 9 systems used 1
Jan 1984.
If the string given to you by Ian evaluated to a zero, you'd get the day of the
week for the epoch date -- no matter what. This would be more obvious if you
were displaying the date with a different format string like "F j, Y".
As always, the documentation on the functions is helpful:
http://www.php.net/date
http://www.php.net/strtotime
James
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