Datetime Class

[niche]

I found this script and don't understand where the argument 'next thursday' came form. I can't find it in the manual for the DateTime class. Shouldn't I be able to find it there?

<?php$date = new DateTime('next Thursday');echo $date->format('l, F jS, Y');?>

Thanks

[Synook]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.construct.php

timeString in a format accepted by strtotime(), defaults to "now".

Edited November 12, 2009 by Synook

[niche]

But, where's the documentation for the argument?

[Synook]

Well, it says it takes strings acceptable by strtotime(), so we could look there - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

strtotime — Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp

So, the argument accepts "about any English textual datetime description". Edited November 12, 2009 by Synook

[Ingolme]

It's a really intelligent system that knows English date representations, such as "tomorrow," "last week," and "+2 months"