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

why note call it holidate() and make it able to more than just easter? maybe
find like moon cycles, or something ...

-brian-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sascha Schumann [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 4:47 PM
> To: Colin Viebrock
> Cc: Egon Schmid; Jim Winstead; PHP Beta Testers; PHP Developers
> Subject: 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).
> 
> -- 
> 
>           Regards,
> 
>                             Sascha Schumann
>                                  Consultant
> 
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