easter_date

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

easter_date — Get Unix timestamp for midnight on Easter of a given year

Descrierea

easter_date ( int|null $year = null , int $mode = CAL_EASTER_DEFAULT ) : int

Returns the Unix timestamp corresponding to midnight on Easter of the given year.

Avertizare

This function will generate a warning if the year is outside of the range for Unix timestamps (i.e. typically before 1970 or after 2037 on 32bit systems).

The date of Easter Day was defined by the Council of Nicaea in AD325 as the Sunday after the first full moon which falls on or after the Spring Equinox. The Equinox is assumed to always fall on 21st March, so the calculation reduces to determining the date of the full moon and the date of the following Sunday. The algorithm used here was introduced around the year 532 by Dionysius Exiguus. Under the Julian Calendar (for years before 1753) a simple 19-year cycle is used to track the phases of the Moon. Under the Gregorian Calendar (for years after 1753 - devised by Clavius and Lilius, and introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in October 1582, and into Britain and its then colonies in September 1752) two correction factors are added to make the cycle more accurate.

Parametri

year: The year as a number between 1970 an 2037. If omitted or null, defaults to the current year according to the local time.
mode: Allows Easter dates to be calculated based on the Julian calendar when set to CAL_EASTER_ALWAYS_JULIAN. See also calendar constants.

Valorile întoarse

The easter date as a unix timestamp.

Istoricul schimbărilor

Versiune	Descriere
8.0.0	`year` is nullable now.

Exemple

Example #1 easter_date() example


<?php

echo date("M-d-Y", easter_date(1999));        // Apr-04-1999
echo date("M-d-Y", easter_date(2000));        // Apr-23-2000
echo date("M-d-Y", easter_date(2001));        // Apr-15-2001

?>

Note

Notă:
easter_date() relies on your system's C library time functions, rather than using PHP's internal date and time functions. As a consequence, easter_date() uses the TZ environment variable to determine the time zone it should operate in, rather than using PHP's default time zone, which may result in unexpected behaviour when using this function in conjunction with other date functions in PHP.

As a workaround, you can use the easter_days() with DateTime and DateInterval to calculate the start of Easter in your PHP time zone as follows:
<?php function get_easter_datetime($year) { $base = new DateTime("$year-03-21"); $days = easter_days($year); return $base->add(new DateInterval("P{$days}D")); } foreach (range(2012, 2015) as $year) { printf("Easter in %d is on %s\n", $year, get_easter_datetime($year)->format('F j')); } ?>

Exemplul de mai sus va afișa:
Easter in 2012 is on April 8
Easter in 2013 is on March 31
Easter in 2014 is on April 20
Easter in 2015 is on April 5

A se vedea și

easter_days() - Get number of days after March 21 on which Easter falls for a given year for calculating Easter before 1970 or after 2037

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User Contributed Notes 6 notes

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maxie ¶

16 years ago


To compute the correct Easter date for Eastern Orthodox Churches I made a function based on the Meeus Julian algorithm:



<?php

function orthodox_eastern($year) {

    $a = $year % 4;

    $b = $year % 7;

    $c = $year % 19;

    $d = (19 * $c + 15) % 30;

    $e = (2 * $a + 4 * $b - $d + 34) % 7;

    $month = floor(($d + $e + 114) / 31);

    $day = (($d + $e + 114) % 31) + 1;

    

    $de = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day + 13, $year);

    

    return $de;

}

?>

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Alexander Bliznyuk ¶

7 years ago


Thank you, @Maxie, for algorythm for computing Orthodox Easter date.
It can be improved though. You added 13 days in order to map Julian calendar to Gregorian.  But 13 days is not a constant. It's an accumulated error fixed in Gregorian and should be calculated with this formula: (int)($year / 100) - (int)($year / 400) - 2

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py dot lebecq at gmail dot com ¶

14 years ago


I recently had to write a function that allows me to know if today is a holiday.

And in France, we have some holidays which depends on the easter date. Maybe this will be helpful to someone.

Just modify in the $holidays array the actual holidays dates of your country.

<?php
/**
 * This function returns an array of timestamp corresponding to french holidays
 */
protected static function getHolidays($year = null)
{
  if ($year === null)
  {
    $year = intval(date('Y'));
  }
    
  $easterDate  = easter_date($year);
  $easterDay   = date('j', $easterDate);
  $easterMonth = date('n', $easterDate);
  $easterYear   = date('Y', $easterDate);

  $holidays = array(
    // These days have a fixed date
    mktime(0, 0, 0, 1,  1,  $year),  // 1er janvier
    mktime(0, 0, 0, 5,  1,  $year),  // Fête du travail
    mktime(0, 0, 0, 5,  8,  $year),  // Victoire des alliés
    mktime(0, 0, 0, 7,  14, $year),  // Fête nationale
    mktime(0, 0, 0, 8,  15, $year),  // Assomption
    mktime(0, 0, 0, 11, 1,  $year),  // Toussaint
    mktime(0, 0, 0, 11, 11, $year),  // Armistice
    mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 25, $year),  // Noel

    // These days have a date depending on easter
    mktime(0, 0, 0, $easterMonth, $easterDay + 2,  $easterYear),
    mktime(0, 0, 0, $easterMonth, $easterDay + 40, $easterYear),
    mktime(0, 0, 0, $easterMonth, $easterDay + 50, $easterYear),
  );

  sort($holidays);
  
  return $holidays;
}
?>

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Guillaume Dufrene ¶

11 years ago


I found a problem with holidays timestamp computation and daylight saving time.
An article about it at http://goo.gl/76t31 (in french only, sorry).

In summary, this year (2013) easter begins before adding an hour for daylight saving time (occured sunday at 3:00). It means that if you do $easter + X, where x is a number of seconds equivalent to one day, 39 days or 50 days, the result is not equals to a midnight timestamp...

Here a function to check if a midnight timestamp is equals to an holiday :

function isHoliday( $ts ) {
// Licence : Creative Commons (BY)
// By Webpulser - http://goo.gl/76t31
  $fixed_holidays = array( ’01-01′, ’01-05′, ’08-05′, ’14-07′, ’15-08′, ’11-11′, ’25-12′ );
  $format = ‘d-m’;

 $dm = date($format, $ts);
  if ( in_array($dm, $fixed_holidays) ) return true;

 $easter = easter_date( date(‘Y’, $ts) );
  if ( date($format, $easter +   86400) == $dm ) return true;
  if ( date($format, $easter + 3369600) == $dm ) return true;
  if ( date($format, $easter + 4320000) == $dm ) return true;

 return false;
}

feel free to use / modify.

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phpuser ¶

20 years ago


The algorithm from Bigtree is correct if you add some (int) cast
<?php 
   function easter_date ($Year) { 
   
       /* 
       G is the Golden Number-1 
       H is 23-Epact (modulo 30) 
       I is the number of days from 21 March to the Paschal full moon 
       J is the weekday for the Paschal full moon (0=Sunday, 
         1=Monday, etc.) 
       L is the number of days from 21 March to the Sunday on or before 
         the Paschal full moon (a number between -6 and 28) 
       */ 
       

         $G = $Year % 19; 
         $C = (int)($Year / 100); 
         $H = (int)($C - (int)($C / 4) - (int)((8*$C+13) / 25) + 19*$G + 15) % 30; 
         $I = (int)$H - (int)($H / 28)*(1 - (int)($H / 28)*(int)(29 / ($H + 1))*((int)(21 - $G) / 11)); 
         $J = ($Year + (int)($Year/4) + $I + 2 - $C + (int)($C/4)) % 7; 
         $L = $I - $J; 
         $m = 3 + (int)(($L + 40) / 44); 
         $d = $L + 28 - 31 * ((int)($m / 4)); 
         $y = $Year; 
         $E = mktime(0,0,0, $m, $d, $y); 

         return $E; 

   } 
?>

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adwil at live dot com ¶

10 years ago


Hey, recently I needed a function to get realization dates in online shop, so here it is (ready to go for polish users, please adjust your dates for any other country):

<?php
function getWorkday($date1,$workDays) {
        $workDays = (int)$workDays;
        if ($workDays <= 0)
            return null;

        $date1=strtotime('-1 day',strtotime($date1));

        $lastYear = null;
        $hol=array('01-01','01-06','05-01','05-03','08-15','11-01','11-11','12-25','12-26');  //array of month-date of static holidays (these are from Poland)
        $i = 0;
        while ($i<=$workDays) {
            $year = date('Y', $date1);
            if ($year !== $lastYear){
                $lastYear = $year;
                $easter = date('m-d', easter_date($year));
                $date = strtotime($year . '-' . $easter); // easter
                $easterSec = date('m-d', strtotime('+1 day', $date)); // easter monday
                $greens = date('m-d', strtotime('+49 days', $date)); // zielone swiatki
                $cc = date('m-d', strtotime('+60 days', $date)); // boze cialo
                $hol[] = $easter;
                $hol[] = $easterSec;
                $hol[] = $greens;
                $hol[] = $cc;
            }
            $weekDay=date('w',$date1);
            if (!($weekDay==0 || $weekDay==6 || in_array(date('m-d',$date1),$hol)))
                $i++;

            $date1=strtotime('+1 day',$date1);
        }
        return date('Y-m-d',$date1);
    }
?>

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