Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15184&edit=1
ID: 15184
Updated by: requinix@php.net
Reported by: j-f at gmx dot net
Summary: Calculate the quarter with date('Q')?
Status: Wont fix
Type: Feature/Change Request
-Package: Feature/Change Request
+Package: *General Issues
Operating System: -
PHP Version: 4.1.1
Assigned To: derick
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
If coreutils/date has it then I think it's worth reconsidering - GNU has already decided what a
quarter is and PHP would merely be consistent with that, like it already is when it comes to other
date handling problems.
Previous Comments:
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[2018-10-13 01:39:06] love at sickpeople dot se
GNU coreutils added support for %q in 2016. See https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8745
The value is 1 - 4.
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[2018-07-15 02:39:55] requinix@php.net
Related To: Bug #76622
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[2018-04-23 12:10:18] vickron at yahoo dot com
if cannot implement date('q')
at least should implemented strtotime('first day of quarter') ...
its annoying using some interpreted code just to wrap around this...
ceil(date('n')/3) just return the quarter number...
need to calc month 1 to 1-january 2-april 3-july and 4-october
using first_month_of_quarter = ceil(date('n')/3) * 3 -2;
date('Y-m-d', mktime (0,0,0,ceil(date('n')/3) * 3 -2,1,date('Y')));
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[2013-04-18 16:07:03] programming at stefan-koch dot name
I really cannot see from where you derive that "most people start Q1 in the first week of the
year or something". Whereever I look after a Google search, the definition of the quarters is:
First quarter: from the beginning of January to the end of March
Second quarter: from the beginning of April to the end of June
Third quarter: from the beginning of July to the end of September
Fourth quarter: from the beginning of October to the end of December
German Wikipedia lists it even clearer, should also be understandable to English speaking people:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartal#Quartale_und_ihre_Monate
e.g. Quarter I from 1. January to 31. March.
I already submitted a patch in another feature request [1], but judging from PHP's behaviour, I
am pretty sure that nobody will ever implement it (I would understand that MY implementation is not
good enough to be copied).
I want to mention that PHP dev's argumentation as I see it in many bug reports really keeps me
from diving into PHP interpreter development.
[1] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34932
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[2011-02-21 21:18:27] fernandojmartin at gmail dot com
Why not to just follow the way MySQL behaves?
In that way I'm not obligated to calculate part of the date OUTSIDE the DB server!
The YEAR starts on Jan 1st. Period.
The first week of the year has nothing to do with Q1 if the real date is December
31.
I don't see a clear sustenance in derick's explanation.
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