Bug #65578 [Opn->Nab]: Php Calendar does not calculate number of days correctly
Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65578&edit=1
ID: 65578
Updated by: requinix@php.net
Reported by: satovey at yahoo dot com
Summary: Php Calendar does not calculate number of days
correctly
-Status: Open
+Status: Not a bug
Type: Bug
-Package: Built-in web server
+Package: Calendar related
Operating System: Windows 7
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
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Your arithmetic is off by one: using January to demonstrate, you're subtracting
January 31st minus January 1st and concluding that there are 31-1=30 days in the
month.
$totalDaysInYear = $lastDay - $firstDay + 1;
Previous Comments:
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[2013-08-28 23:08:32] satovey at yahoo dot com
Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.jewishtojd
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In using the JewishToJD function of the Calendar,
there is a discrepancy in the total days of the year.
The last month of the Jewish Year has 29 days
and the shortest year is 353 days.
Test script:
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<?PHP
$year = "5777";
$firstDate = "1/1/$year";
$lastDate = "13/30/$year";
$count=1;
calculateTotalDays($firstDate, $lastDate, $year, $count);
$firstDate = "1/1/$year";
$lastDate = "13/29/$year";
$count=1;
calculateTotalDays($firstDate, $lastDate, $year, $count);
function calculateTotalDays($firstDate, $lastDate, $year, $count)
{
$count++;
$displayYear = $year;
list($firstMonth, $firstDay, $firstYear) = explode("/",$firstDate);
list($lastMonth, $lastDay, $lastYear) = explode("/",$lastDate);
if ($year < 0)
{
$firstYear = $firstYear + 248;
$lastYear = $lastYear + 248;
//echo "less than 0 => $year<br />";
}
$firstDay = jewishtojd( $firstMonth, $firstDay, $firstYear );
$lastDay = jewishtojd ( $lastMonth, $lastDay, $lastYear );
$totalDaysInYear = $lastDay - $firstDay;
//echo "$firstDate, $lastDate <br />";
//echo "Cycle Count -> $count | Total Days in the Year $year => ";
echo "$displayYear ";
echo "$totalDaysInYear";
echo "<br />";
}
?>
Expected result:
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It is expected that when calculating between 1/1/577 to 13/29/577 the
return should be 353 days as that is the number of days in the Jewish
year 5777.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar#Leap_years
>> Scroll up to see a list of new year dates. <<
This appears to occur in all versions of PHP.
Actual result:
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Yet the provided code will output 352 days if 13,29,5777 is entered
and 353 days if 13,30,5777 is entered. Note: the month of Elul which
is given the number 13 is a 29 day month.
The output is as follows:
5777 353
5777 352
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