From 129d13b8bc0ec8037c480e4acd5a6f702e324fd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Robinson <mrobinso@php.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 02:34:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added reference and example of using 0 as last day of
 previous month

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@18475 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 functions/datetime.xml | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/functions/datetime.xml b/functions/datetime.xml
index 0f3bed323a..c0e2736748 100644
--- a/functions/datetime.xml
+++ b/functions/datetime.xml
@@ -353,6 +353,20 @@ echo date( "M-d-Y", mktime(0,0,0,1,1,1998) );
       </programlisting>
      </example>
     </para>
+    <para>
+    The last day of any given month can be expressed as the "0" day  
+    of the next month, not the -1 day. Both of the following examples
+    will produce the string "The last day in Feb 2000 is: 29".
+     <example>
+      <programlisting>
+$lastday=mktime(0,0,0,3,0,2000);
+echo strftime("Last day in Feb 2000 is: %d",$lastday);
+     
+$lastday=mktime(0,0,0,4,-31,2000);
+echo strftime("Last day in Feb 2000 is: %d",$lastday);
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
+    </para>
     <para>
      See also <function>date</function> and <function>time</function>.
     </para>