[wplug] weird php issue

[Chris Romano]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Eli Heady <eli.heady at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chris Romano <romano.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm running CentOS and using php 5.1.6
>>
>> There seems to be an issue with the date function.  I don't know if
>> there is something on my end (coding) of it's a system issue.  Here is
>> the code in question:
>>
>> $firstWeek = date("W",mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,$year));
>>
>> which for January would be something like this
>> $firstWeek = date("W",mktime(0,0,0,01,1,2010));
>>
>> When this code is ran, $firstWeek is being set to 53.  It should be
>> set to 01.  The code works perfect if the year is 2009.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>
> Same here: php 5.3.1 (suhosin patched)
>
> Occurs every six years, then in the following year the week is off by -2
>
> A quick search revealed an issue with similar timing, due to daylight
> saving time: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29065
>
> It is suggested in that bug report to use gmmktime or gmdate instead.
> Is that an option for you?
>
> date("W",gmdate(0,0,0,01,1,2010));
> seems to work as expected
>

Perfect.  I will give that a try.

I'm glad that I'm not just losing my mind.

Thanks,
Chris

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