Re: [PEPr] Comment on Date and Time::Date_Holidays

Hi, On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:17:15 +0200, Carsten Lucke wrote: >> but the final user must be able to customize his data (maybe he >> wants to filter some holidays out). > Well, filtering out holidays you're not interested in works > already. You can see that here - > http://pear.tool-garage.de/Date_Holidays/examples-src/. great. Sorry, I hadn't seen that. >> Is there any difference between >> Date_Holidays_Driver_Christian::_calcEaster() and the php >> function easter_date()? [5] > easter_date() returns a timestamp and I tried to avoid using > timestamps in the package. does it work on <1970 and 2037< dates too? Otherwise, you can convert the timestamp to ISO with a simple date('Y-m-d H:i:s', easter_date($year)); call... A small optimization tip: ============================ function &_calcEaster($year) { static $easter_dates = array(); if (array_key_exists($year, $easter_dates) { return $easter_dates[$year]; } //calc easter date and store it in $easter_date[$year]; } ============================ Regards, -- Lorenzo Alberton http://pear.php.net/user/quipo