Re: PHP date: ISO year = loss of hair

On Fri, December 14, 2007 2:02 am, Arno Kuhl wrote: > I'm battling with getting the last week number using date(W, > $unixdate). If > the date is 30 December 2007 ($unixdate=1198965600) then date(W, > $unixdate) > returns 01. I know that according to the ISO spec, the last week of > the ISO > year has 28 December in it, so in this particular case the last week > number > of the ISO year is 52. However 30 December is in the following week, > week > 53. How do I get the correct value of 53 for 30 December 2007? > > I'm thinking along the lines of: if the date is greater than 28 > December > then use the week number of 28 December; then check every day between > 28 > December and the date to see if a Sunday occurs and if so add one to > the > week number. It looks like it will work but seems ridiculously > laboured for > such a simple issue. Am I overlooking something obvious here - is > there > something I've missed about PHP date? Any pointers would be greatly > appreciated. I think Arlo Leach fought this battle and posted here or in the Chicago PHP User Group about it... You should be able to find PHP-General archives easily enough. The Chicago group ones are here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=chiphpug-discuss -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?