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Re: strtotime() not able to handle 04/29 correctly??? [message #177223 is a reply to message #177220]

Wed, 29 February 2012 23:24

Doug Miller
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cerr <ron(dot)eggler(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in news:a63a7827-bc1a-483a-96ae-de8289aa2de0@
32g2000yqn.googlegroups.com:

> Hi,
>
> I calculate the amount of days between two dates like this:
>
> $start = strtotime($_SESSION['sdate']);
> $end = strtotime($_SESSION['hdate']);
> echo ($end - $start);
> $duration = ($end - $start) / 3600 /24;
> $duration+=1; //plus one day
> echo " The ad will show for ".$duration." day(s)<br/>";
>
> Which generally works fine but things seem to mess up when I have a
> start sdate of 2012-02-29 and an hdate of 2012-04-01. I get a duration
> of: 32.9583333333

which is 32 days 23 hours. What might throw this off by one hour? Hint: in the United States, it
happens every year on the second Sunday of March.

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		strtotime() not able to handle 04/29 correctly??? By: cerr on Wed, 29 February 2012 18:41
		Re: strtotime() not able to handle 04/29 correctly??? By: Peter H. Coffin on Wed, 29 February 2012 20:19
		Re: strtotime() not able to handle 04/29 correctly??? By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 February 2012 21:21
		Re: strtotime() not able to handle 04/29 correctly??? By: Doug Miller on Wed, 29 February 2012 23:24
		Re: strtotime() not able to handle 04/29 correctly??? By: Eli the Bearded on Thu, 01 March 2012 00:25
		Re: strtotime() not able to handle 04/29 correctly??? By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 01 March 2012 00:46
		Re: strtotime() not able to handle 04/29 correctly??? By: Doug Miller on Thu, 01 March 2012 01:28

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