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Question

I want to find the time for first monday after say 10 months, something like this:-

   $start = time();
   echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A', $start), PHP_EOL;
   $start = strtotime('first Monday +10 month', $start);
   echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A', $start), PHP_EOL;

The result is:-

Monday 13th of January 2014 08:04:28 AM
Thursday 13th of November 2014 12:00:00 AM

Why is the first string not applied?

Answer 1

I tested this code:

<?php
echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A', strtotime('first monday of +10 month'));
?>

And got the result -- all I had to do was add "of" to the string. Notes on the site indicate this is for >=5.3.

Output:

Monday 3rd of November 2014 12:00:00 AM

Edit Ignore all this BS

It's because you missed the note in the documentation. It applies

Relative statements are always processed after non-relative statements

So, it's going to the first Monday and then going forward 10 months.

Edit: Strike this: Change the order to '+10 months first Monday' to get what you desire. I misread the note, too. I guess it means you need to do 2 strtotimes in the order you need.