note 80148 deleted from function.date by peehaa
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| Subject: | note 80148 deleted from function.date by peehaa | ||
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Note Submitter: jc
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date("W") returns the iso8601 week number, while date("Y") returns the _current_
year. This can lead to odd results. For example today (dec 31, 2007) it returns 1 for the week and
of course 2007 for the year. This is not wrong in a strict sense because iso defines this week as
the first of 2008 while we still have 2007.
So, if you don't have another way to safely retrieve the year according to the iso8061
week-date - strftime("%G") doesn't work on some systems -, you should be careful when
working with date("W").
For most cases strftime("%W") should be a safe replacement.
[edit: Much easier is to use "o" (lower case O) instead of "Y"]