How to get the first day of the current year?

Question

I need to use PHP DateTime to get the first day of the current year. I\'ve tried:

$year = new DateTime(\'first day of this year\');
var_dump($year);
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Answer 1

Try this:

$dt = date('m/d/Y',time());

echo 'First day : '. date("01/01/Y", strtotime($dt)).' - Last day : '. date("m/t/Y", strtotime($dt));