Help with Date

I need a function to create the dates of previous Fridays, in
21-JUL-2003 format.

I figure this has already been done, so I wanted to ask before I
continued writing my own.

Thanks, Elliot

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Hi Elliot,

> I need a function to create the dates of previous
> Fridays, in 21-JUL-2003 format.

It'll be different depending on what you want to happen if you pass a Friday
timestamp to the function, but it should be something like:

function friday($ts)
{

while (date("w", $ts) != 5)
$ts -= 86400;

return date("d-m-Y", $ts);

}

Cheers
Jon

Ha. Not what I have in mind. :)

Adam Voigt wrote:

>Umm.
>
>echo(date('U',strtotime('next Friday')));
>
>Notice the strtotime part.
>
>
>On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 09:25, John Manko wrote:
>
>
>>I'd settle for a function that will generate a date for this upcoming
>>friday. ;)
>>
>>Elliot Tobin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I need a function to create the dates of previous Fridays
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

More like:

echo(date('Jennifer Lopez',strtotime('next Friday')));

John Manko wrote:

> Ha. Not what I have in mind. :)
>
> Adam Voigt wrote:
>
>> Umm.
>>
>> echo(date('U',strtotime('next Friday')));
>>
>> Notice the strtotime part.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 09:25, John Manko wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'd settle for a function that will generate a date for this
>>> upcoming friday. ;)
>>>
>>> Elliot Tobin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I need a function to create the dates of previous Fridays
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
>
>

* Thus wrote Adam Voigt (adam@cryptocomm.com):
> Umm.
>
> echo(date('U',strtotime('next Friday')));

I prefer:

while(1) echo(date('U', strtotime('Saturday'));


Curt
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