Bug #65730 [Nab]: DateTime::format('W') returns wrong week number

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65730&edit=1 ID: 65730 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported by: glavic at gmail dot com Summary: DateTime::format('W') returns wrong week number Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: ALL PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Nope, we won't delete it so that we can point other people to it in the future. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-09-21 18:51:06] glavic at gmail dot com Ah, I found it, it is 'o' format character. Sorry for your trouble. Can you delete this failed bug report? ;) Tnx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-09-21 18:48:10] glavic at gmail dot com I made a copy/paste typo before, but that doesn't matter now because you said that 'Y' returns the year of the date, which is totally correct, where was my head... I understand what you are saying; I agree that Dec 30 and 31 fall in week 1; but year 2014, not 2013. Maybe I should rephrase my question: how do I get correct week year from "echo (new DateTime('2013-12-30'))->format('W ????');" ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-09-21 18:18:50] rasmus@php.net 2013-12-30 ('Y W');" returns "2013 01" is correct. The 'Y' is the year. The ISO 8601 Year for 2013-12-30 is obviously 2013. However the ISO 8601 Week number for 2013-12-30 is also just as obviously 1. So 2013 01 is correct. And your next statement makes no sense either: "So now we have two identical week number for year 2013 with a year difference between dates ;)" We are talking about Dec.30 and 31 in 2013. That is Monday and Tuesday. They both fall in ISO week 1 and they are both in 2013. Wednesday Jan.1 2014 also falls in ISO week 1 even though it is in 2014. That's how ISO weeks work. Is your confusion that you think the 'Y' has to be associated with the 'W' somehow? The 'Y' refers to the date you are formatting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-09-21 18:05:44] glavic at gmail dot com @rasmus: I never said nothing about first or last week of the month containing dates from before/after year. You probably agree with statement that the last week of the year 2013 (and first week of the year 2014) is from 2013-12-30 to 2014-01-05? I reported this, not because what you said, but because code "echo (new DateTime('2013-12-30'))->format('Y W');" returns "2013 01" which is incorrect, and for me this is bug. This should, like I already said in report, return "2014 01". Code "echo (new DateTime('2012-12-31'))->format('Y W');" also returns "2013 01". So now we have two identical week number for year 2013 with a year difference between dates ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-09-21 14:33:53] rasmus@php.net PHP uses the ISO 8601 standard for day, month and week numbers. This is pretty clearly documented and if you read ISO 8601 it states that the first week of the year is "the week with the year's first Thursday in it" and since ISO 8601 weeks start on Mondays, it is quite normal for the first ISO week to contain days from a previous year. If they didn't then it would be impossible to consistently start weeks on Mondays since Jan.1 is not always a Monday. If you apply the ISO 8601 definition to the dates in question here you will find PHP is quite correct here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65730 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65730&edit=1