I'm trying to figure out the first wednesday of a given month using
strtotime
$mon = strtotime("December 2010 first monday");
$tue = strtotime("December 2010 first tuesday");
$wed = strtotime("December 2010 first wednesday");
$thu = strtotime("December 2010 first thursday");
$fri = strtotime("December 2010 first friday");
$sat = strtotime("December 2010 first saturday");
$sun = strtotime("December 2010 first sunday");
echo strftime("%m/%d/%y", $mon) . "<br>";
echo strftime("%m/%d/%y", $tue) . "<br>";
echo strftime("%m/%d/%y", $wed) . "<br>";
echo strftime("%m/%d/%y", $thu) . "<br>";
echo strftime("%m/%d/%y", $fri) . "<br>";
echo strftime("%m/%d/%y", $sat) . "<br>";
echo strftime("%m/%d/%y", $sun) . "<br>";
12/06/10
12/07/10
12/08/10
12/02/10
12/03/10
12/04/10
12/05/10
I don't have any explanation as I'm also dazzled, but I managed to find out how you get the correct date by omitting the "first", like so:
$ php -r 'echo date("m/d/y", strtotime("December 2010 Wednesday"));'
12/01/10
$ php -r 'echo date("m/d/y", strtotime("December 2010 Thursday"));'
12/02/10
$ php -r 'echo date("m/d/y", strtotime("December 2010 Friday"));'
12/03/10
$ php -r 'echo date("m/d/y", strtotime("December 2010 Saturday"));'
12/04/10
$ php -r 'echo date("m/d/y", strtotime("December 2010 Sunday"));'
12/05/10
$ php -r 'echo date("m/d/y", strtotime("December 2010 Monday"));'
12/06/10
$ php -r 'echo date("m/d/y", strtotime("December 2010 Tuesday"));'
12/07/10