note 108521 added to function.easter-date

Due to range limitations of core functions such as easter_date(), mktime(), strtotime(), I wrote this function to get the Easter Day in string format yyyy-mm-dd. function myEaster($year) { /*Warning: easter_date(): This function is only valid for years between 1970 and 2037 * The easter_days() function can be used instead of easter_date() to calculate Easter for years which fall outside the range. */ //The next line would do the work if there were no limitations: //return date("Y-m-d",easter_date($year)); /*Outside range (1970,2037) they advise to use easter_days(). * Unfortunately, when you have to create a date object as 21-03-yyyy to which add easter_days(), then obtain Easter, * functions like strtotime(), DateTime::createFromFormat() will fail. (return value is 01-01-1970) */ $march21=date("$year-03-21"); $days=easter_days($year); if($year<=2037) //The next line would do the work if strtotime() wasn't affected by same limitations. But, the if..else is required to handle all years. $date = date("Y-m-d",strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($march21)) . " +$days day")); else { if($days<=10){ $day=str_pad(21+$days, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT); $date=date("$year-03-$day"); } else { $day=str_pad($days-10, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT); $date=date("$year-04-$day"); } } return $date; } ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 213.82.29.9 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.easter-date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/108521 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108521/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108521/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108521/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108521/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108521/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108521/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/108521 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/108521 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php