echo date("w",strtotime(date("Y-m-d")));
echo date("w",strtotime(date("Y年m月d日")));
Save it as utf8.You'll see the second is bigger than the first one.
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A:
Mask,
most probably because strtotime is not able to parse properly the japanese formated date.
In my opinion, by reading the documentation it would accept date formated with - but that's not explicitly said.
trying var_dump(strtotime(date("Y年m月d日")); give false so like in the documentation the strtotime seems to fail to parse it.
so date apply on false which don't give the same result.
RageZ
2009-11-11 08:05:07
Seems only you got what I mean.But can you verify it?
Mask
2009-11-11 08:09:39
I think like pointed out other person it might something to do with the double byte. but really no way to check that apart inspecting the php source code
RageZ
2009-11-11 08:10:44
@Mask, just try echo strtotime( date("Y年m月d日") );
x2
2009-11-11 08:10:52
@x2: thanks for the remark it return false
RageZ
2009-11-11 08:15:27
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A:
If by "bigger" you mean "it uses more bytes", it's beacause UTF8 is an encoding with variable character size. A - character will be encoded with one single byte, while 年 will be encoded with at least two. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf8
Konamiman
2009-11-11 08:05:56
He just said "second is bigger". I'm not sure what he meant so I took a possible interpretation.
Konamiman
2009-11-11 08:09:38
A:
The Asian characters take up 2 or more bytes when represented in UTF-8, while dashes only take one byte.
Kaivosukeltaja
2009-11-11 08:06:26
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A:
The main problem is that strtotime is expection a valid date in US format ( readyble here http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php )
to solve this you could use the function strftime
echo date("w",strftime(date("Y年m月d日")));
echo date("w",strftime(date("Y-m-d")));