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ID: 63521 Comment by: michal dot kocztorz at polcode dot pl Reported by: linesarefuzzy at gmail dot com Summary: Adding 5 weekdays to Fri, Sat or Sun results in Sunday Status: Open Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: Mac, Linux PHP Version: 5.3.18 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Seems to affect DateTime::modify too. $dt = new DateTime("2013-01-04"); echo $dt->modify("+5 weekdays")->format("Y-m-d H:i:s l") . "<br/>"; $dt = new DateTime("2013-01-05"); echo $dt->modify("+5 weekdays")->format("Y-m-d H:i:s l") . "<br/>"; $dt = new DateTime("2013-01-06"); echo $dt->modify("+5 weekdays")->format("Y-m-d H:i:s l") . "<br/>"; $dt = new DateTime("2013-01-07"); echo $dt->modify("+5 weekdays")->format("Y-m-d H:i:s l") . "<br/>"; Got: 2013-01-13 00:00:00 Sunday 2013-01-13 00:00:00 Sunday 2013-01-13 00:00:00 Sunday 2013-01-14 00:00:00 Monday Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-11-23 02:58:58] linesarefuzzy at gmail dot com Jon-- Since the bug always results in Sunday when it should be Friday, an obvious workaround would be to test the weekday of the result, and if it's Sunday, subtract two days. For example: <?php if (date('l', $timestamp) == 'Sunday') $timestamp = strtotime(date('Y-m-d', $timestamp) . ' - 2 days'); ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-11-22 08:33:11] jon dot drummond at barrowsonline dot com Has anyone found a solution to this yet? We can not wait for a patch & need a workaround in the mean time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-11-14 19:00:22] linesarefuzzy at gmail dot com Description: ------------ Adding 5 weekdays to a Friday, Saturday or Sunday returns the following Sunday instead of Friday. Same issue when adding multiples of 5. Starting with any other weekday works as expected, as does adding any other number of weekdays. Test script: --------------- echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'friday + 1 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'friday + 2 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'friday + 3 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'friday + 4 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'friday + 5 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'saturday + 1 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'saturday + 2 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'saturday + 3 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'saturday + 4 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'saturday + 5 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'sunday + 1 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'sunday + 2 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'sunday + 3 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'sunday + 4 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; echo date ( 'l, F j, Y', strtotime ( 'sunday + 5 weekdays' ) ) . "\n"; Expected result: ---------------- Monday, November 19, 2012 Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Thursday, November 22, 2012 Friday, November 23, 2012 Monday, November 19, 2012 Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Thursday, November 22, 2012 Friday, November 23, 2012 Monday, November 19, 2012 Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Thursday, November 22, 2012 Friday, November 23, 2012 Actual result: -------------- Monday, November 19, 2012 Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Thursday, November 22, 2012 Sunday, November 25, 2012 Monday, November 19, 2012 Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Thursday, November 22, 2012 Sunday, November 25, 2012 Monday, November 19, 2012 Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Thursday, November 22, 2012 Sunday, November 25, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63521&edit=1