RE: [PHP] Finding # of weekdays between 2 dates..

I should have specified, those dates were in US form.. so: $nowdate = mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 4, 2002); $futuredate = mktime(0, 0, 0, 2, 5, 2002); $futuredate - $nowdate equals 2764800 ((2764800 / 86400) / 7) = 4.57142 then when floored, comes out to 4. The only thing I can think of possibly getting around it is setting futuredate to mktime(23, 59, 59, $month, $day, $year), but I still come up short .. those two timestamps, after all the math before the floor(), equals 4.71, which still results in a 4. I've tried ceil and round, but with similar inaccuracies in other dates (going 1 day too far in some cases with ceil). Perhaps this function I found is just not the right way to go about it, but if anyone has any more insight, it's greatly appreciated. Chad -----Original Message----- From: Marek Kilimajer [mailto:kilimajer@webglobe.sk] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:48 AM To: Chad Day Cc: php general Subject: Re: [PHP] Finding # of weekdays between 2 dates.. WFM: $nowdate = mktime(0, 0, 0, 4, 1, 2002); $futuredate = mktime(0, 0, 0, 5, 2, 2002); echo weekdaysBetween ($nowdate,$futuredate,2); I get 5 Chad Day wrote: >I found this function in the list archives while searching on how to find >the number of a weekday (say, Tuesdays) between 2 dates.. > > function weekdaysBetween ($timestamp1, $timestamp2, $weekday) > { > return floor(intval(($timestamp2 - $timestamp1) / 86400) / 7) > + ((date('w', $timestamp1) <= $weekday) ? 1 : 0); > } > >Sometimes it works, but I've come across a date while testing this that >doesn't work, which makes me think there is some bug in the function that >I'm not seeing. > >The 2 dates I am trying are: > >01-04-2002 >and >02-05-2002 > >There should be 5 Tuesdays: > >01-08-2002 >01-15-2002 >01-22-2002 >01-29-2002 >02-05-2002 > >Yet the script only returns 4, leaving off 02-05-2002. > > $nowdate = mktime(0, 0, 0, $STARTMONTH, $STARTDAY, $STARTYEAR); > $futuredate = mktime(0, 0, 0, $ENDMONTH, $ENDDAY, $ENDYEAR); > >That's how I'm generating the time stamps to pass to the function, and I've >confirmed the dates I've entered are correct.. > > echo weekdaysBetween($nowdate, $futuredate, 2); > >Returns 4 .. > > >can anyone assist? > >Thanks, >Chad > > > >