How to check if there is a February 29th in between 2 timestamps?
$date_from = '2007-06-01';
$date_to = '2013-05-30';
I know in this range there's 2 times a feb-29, but how do I check for it?
I want to count the days in between, but leap days don't count.
This will loop through the years, but it is even easier after you find a leap year because the next one will be 4 years after, etc.
$date_from = strtotime('2007-06-01');
$date_to = strtotime('2013-05-30');
for($year=$date_from; $year<=$date_to; $year=strtotime('next year', $year)) {
echo date('Y', $year);
echo date('L', $year) ? 'Leap year' : 'Not leap year';
}
But I think you can just check if the year 'Y'
is evenly divisible by 4.
The problem I had was I wanted to find if Feb 29 existed in a smaller date range. It assumes that there is not more than two years. This my solution for that:
$startDate = strtotime('2015-10-01 00:00:00');
$endDate = strtotime('2016-09-30 23:00:00');
$feb29StartYear = mktime(0, 0, 0, 2, 29, date('Y', $startDate));
$feb29EndYear = mktime(0, 0, 0, 2, 29, date('Y', $endDate));
if( (date('L', $startDate) && $startDate < $feb29StartYear) ||
(date('L', $endDate) && $endDate > $feb29EndYear)) { //We have a leap day
//some logic here
}
Just thought this may be useful for someone else.