Re: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-BETA] RE: [PHP-DEV] updated 3.0.9 tarball (again)

On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 04:37:07PM -0400, Colin Viebrock wrote: > > > How about date('e') --> when Easter is this year? ;) > > > > I assume that will be a calendar function. But if you can hide it in > > date() I will use it also. > > I was kinda joking when I mentioned it, but it certainly is do-able. > > But how would it work? > > date('e') would return the unix timestamp for midnight on Easter in > the current year, and date('e',$timestamp) would return the timestamp > for easter in the year of $timestamp? So: > > date('e') --> 923202000 > date('d-M-Y',date('e')) --> 04-Apr-1999 > > Sound good? Shall I start coding? Maybe use another function name than date. A new user would find a function called "easter_date" (or similar) easier than parsing through the whole long list of date arguments (if he suspects it there at all). -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant