--- Marian Briones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyway, I have this one site that has a countdown to their next
> event on it. I forgot to go in and change it to standard time
> when we switched to standard time in October.
>
> Is there a nifty way I can script it to know when we make our
> time changes during the year? I'm not sure how PHP handles
> things like "the third Sunday in October"
>
> I look forward to finding out!!!!
>
> Marian
Since PHP looks at the server time, I guess you are saying that you did not
have your clock
automatically adjust itself with a time server. You may want to look into this
since PCs are
notorious for keeping time poorly.
The network time protocol servers use ntpd and you should be able to correct
your time on a
regular basis with a cron job.
If you want to generate the "third Sunday in October" you can do something like
this with
strtotime().
$ cal 10 2006
October 2006
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
$ cat daylight.php
<?php
print date("D m/d/Y", strtotime("Third Sunday October 2006")) . "\n\n";
?>
$ php daylight.php
Mon 10/23/2006
However, I note that the result is one greater (Monday the 23rd instead of
Sunday the 22nd) than
it should be:
$ cat daylight.php
<?php
print date("D m/d/Y", strtotime("Third Sunday October 2006 -1 day")) . "\n\n";
?>
$ php daylight.php 2>/dev/null
Sun 10/22/2006
James
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