Re: pro-rated date

From: Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 00:21:47 +0000
Subject: Re: pro-rated date
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Hi, Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 7:03:37 AM, you wrote: PC> Anybody have a quick way of determining the number of days remaining in PC> the current month? PC> I'm currently using: PC> $nextmonth = strftime("%Y-%m-01",strtotime("+1 month")) PC> $monthdays = strftime("%d",strtotime($nextmonth)-86400); PC> $daysleft = $monthdays - strftime("%d",time()); PC> I can obviously compact things into a single line, but it's enormous and PC> offends my sense of esthetics. I was hoping I might be able to feed PC> something funky like "first day of next month" to strtotime, but the gnu PC> date input format isn't quite that flexible. PC> Any advice? Is there an *elegant* way of doing this? PC> -- PC> Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> PC> Operations / Abuse / Whatever PC> it.canada, hosting and development PC> http://www.it.ca/ This might get what you want, but to be accurate you will have to decide what to do with the odd hours mins left over $days = (strtotime("+1 month") - (date("d")* 86400) - time()) / 86400; -- regards, Tom

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