Function mktime() documentation question

Hi gang: I am using the getdate(mktime()) functions to get month data (i.e., name of month, first weekday, last day, number of days). To get the number of days for a specific month, I use: // $current_month is the month under question $next_month = $current_month + 1; $what_date = getdate(mktime(0, 0, 0, $next_month, 0, $year)); $days_in_current_month = $what_date['mday']; That works for me! However, if you read the documentation, namely: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php It states: --- quote day The number of the day relative to the end of the previous month. Values 1 to 28, 29, 30 or 31 (depending upon the month) reference the normal days in the relevant month. Values less than 1 (including negative values) reference the days in the previous month, so 0 is the last day of the previous month, -1 is the day before that, etc. Values greater than the number of days in the relevant month reference the appropriate day in the following month(s). --- un-quote From my code, the number of days in a month can be found by using 0 as the first index of the next month -- not the last day of the previous month. As such, I would re-write the relevant portion of the paragraph to be: day The number of the day relative to the end of the previous month. Values 1 to 28, 29, 30 or 31 (depending upon the month) reference the normal days in the relevant month. Values less than 0 reference the days in the previous month. For example, -1 is the day before the first day of the relevant month. The value 0 is the zero index of the next month, which is also equal to the last day of the relevant month. Values greater than zero are the number of days in the relevant month reference the appropriate day in the following month(s). What say you? Cheers, tedd _____________________ tedd.sperling@gmail.com http://sperling.com