Calculating future date with strtotime doesn't work properly.

Question

If I run "next saturday" into strtotime function it shows 4/3/2010 as the date. Why does it not show 4/10?

Answer 1

try:

ini_set('date.timezone', 'America/Los_Angeles');

or edit your php.ini

Answer 2

got it ...

strtotime('next Saturday', strtotime('+1 day'));

Answer 3

Other Timezones

date_default_timezone_set("Etc/GMT-5");
$time = strtotime('Saturday +7 day');
$date = date("m/d/Y",$time);