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Re: [PHP3] Date Stuff
From: Andy Lewis (alewis <email protected>)
Date: 08/31/99
Thank you very much. This worked perfectly.
Andy
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > Is there something wrong with this snippit?
> >
> > for ($i = 1; $i <= 13; $i++) {
> > echo "<option VALUE=$i>";
> > echo date("M", mktime(0,0,0,$i));
> > echo "</option>\n";
> > }
> >
> > I'm using it in a select statement and here's the output:
> >
> > <option VALUE=1>Jan</option>
> > <option VALUE=2>Mar</option>
> > <option VALUE=3>Mar</option>
> > <option VALUE=4>May</option>
> > <option VALUE=5>May</option>
> > <option VALUE=6>Jul</option>
> > <option VALUE=7>Jul</option>
> > <option VALUE=8>Aug</option>
> > <option VALUE=9>Oct</option>
> > <option VALUE=10>Oct</option>
> > <option VALUE=11>Dec</option>
> > <option VALUE=12>Dec</option>
> > <option VALUE=13>Jan</option>
> >
> > Any idea why the months are off?
>
> Try it tomorrow, it will work perfectly! ;)
>
> The problem is that when you do not supply arguments to mktime() the
> current time's values will be filled in. Since you only supplied the
> hour, minute, second and month arguments, the day and year are taken to be
> today's date and year. And since today is the 31st you have a problem
> because not all months have 31 days. mktime() tries to be smart about
> this and figure that if you are asking for November 31, for example, that
> you are actually talking about Dec.1.
>
> The simple fix is to add a date to your mktime() call.
> As in: mktime(0,0,0,$i,1)
>
> -Rasmus
>
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