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Bug #68973 DateTime('first day of last week') not working
Submitted: 2015-02-02 16:42 UTC Modified: 2015-02-03 07:38 UTC
From: t dot baumgarden at web dot de Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Date/time related
PHP Version: 5.5.21 OS: centOS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2015-02-02 16:42 UTC] t dot baumgarden at web dot de
Description:
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Today is 2015-02-02 (02.February)

I want first and last day ob last week:

$date = new DateTime('first day of last week');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
// ---
$date = new DateTime('last day of last week');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');

result is (WRONG!):

2015-02-01
2015-02-28

MUST BE:

2015-01-26
2015-02-01

This working fine with "month" instead "week":

DateTime('first day of last month');
DateTime('last day of last month');

result is:

2015-01-01
2015-01-31

Test script:
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$date = new DateTime('first day of last week');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');

$date = new DateTime('last day of last week');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');


Expected result:
----------------
2015-01-26
2015-02-01

Actual result:
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2015-02-01
2015-02-28

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 [2015-02-02 21:41 UTC] cmbecker69 at gmx dot de
According to the table "Day-based notations" on the manual page
"Relative Formats"[1] "first day of" and "last day of" are always
relative a *month*.

What you're looking for is

  new DateTime('Monday of last week')
  
resp.

  new DateTime('Sunday of last week')

[1] <http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.relative.php>
 [2015-02-03 07:38 UTC] aharvey@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2015-02-03 07:38 UTC] aharvey@php.net
What cmbecker69 said. :)
 [2015-02-04 04:21 UTC] a at b dot c dot de
Assuming a culture that reckons weeks as running from Monday to Sunday and not, say, Sunday to Saturday. :)
 
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