How to convert week number and year into unix timestamp?

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blacktie24 picture blacktie24 · Apr 23, 2011 · Viewed 29.6k times · Source

I'm trying to group together dates into a week number and year, and then I want to convert that week number back into a unix timestamp. How can I go about doing this?

Answer

Pekka picture Pekka · Apr 23, 2011

I assume you are using ISO 8601 week numbers, and want the first day of a ISO 8601 week so that e.g. Week 1 of 2011 returns January 3 2011.

strtotime can do this out of the box using the {YYYY}W{WW} format:

echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime("2011W01")); // 2011-01-03

Note that the week number needs to be two digits.

Shamefully, DateTime::createFromFormat, the fancy new PHP 5 way of dealing with dates, seems unable to parse this kind of information - it doesn't have a "week" placeholder.

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