Keeps adding two months to March 31st instead of one

[Simmo]

Hi,

 

Something strange has happend today.

 

I am from the UK the date is March 31st so I am using timezone:

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

I capture the date:

$date = date("Y-m-d");

Add a month to the date:

date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+1 Month", strtotime($date)))

 

And its comming out as May.

 

If I capture the date through the URL which I do when navigating back:

$date = $_GET['date'];

Its works and says April

 

Can anyone please advise me on why this is happening.

 

Thanks

[btherl]

Is date("Y-m-d") producing what you expect?  Have you printed it out?

[Simmo]

Hi,

 

Yes it is, any suggestions?

 

Cheers

[salathe]

See this blog post from the guy who maintains PHPs date/time related functions: http://derickrethans.nl/obtaining-the-next-month-in-php.html

[Simmo]

Thanks for that, it all makes sense.

 

Here is my solution:

 

$month = date("m"); 

$year = date("Y");

 

date("Y-m-d", strtotime("+1 Month", strtotime(date("Y-m-d", strtotime($year.$month.'01'.' 00:00:00')))))

[PFMaBiSmAd]

strtotime() and date() are fairly slow and you have a ton of extra ones. This is all you need -

 

date("Y-m-d", strtotime(date('Y-m') . "-01 +1 Month"));