Re: [PHP-BETA] RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-BETA] RE: [PHP-DEV] updated 3.0.9 tarball (again)

On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 04:37:07PM -0400, Colin Viebrock wrote:
> > > How about date('e') --> when Easter is this year?  ;)
> > 
> > I assume that will be a calendar function. But if you can hide it in
> > date() I will use it also.
> 
> I was kinda joking when I mentioned it, but it certainly is do-able.
> 
> But how would it work?
> 
> date('e') would return the unix timestamp for midnight on Easter in 
> the current year, and date('e',$timestamp) would return the timestamp 
> for easter in the year of $timestamp?  So:
> 
> date('e') 				--> 923202000
> date('d-M-Y',date('e'))		--> 04-Apr-1999
> 
> Sound good?  Shall I start coding?

Maybe use another function name than date. A new user would find a function
called "easter_date" (or similar) easier than parsing through the whole long
list of date arguments (if he suspects it there at all).

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          Regards,

                            Sascha Schumann
                                 Consultant