Req #15184 [Com]: Calculate the quarter with date('Q')?

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15184&edit=1 ID: 15184 Comment by: love at sickpeople dot se Reported by: j-f at gmx dot net Summary: Calculate the quarter with date('Q')? Status: Wont fix Type: 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: @requinix: could you please change the status from Wont fix to Open again? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-10-13 02:39:14] requinix@php.net 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2018-07-15 02:39:55] requinix@php.net Related To: Bug #76622 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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'))); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=15184 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15184&edit=1