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

If you want to get first day of current year just use this code

echo date("l", strtotime('first day of January '.date('Y') ));

Answer 2

Your relative date format 'first day of this year' is correct by returning the first day of the month because of the definition of first day of:

Sets the day of the first of the current month. This phrase is best used together with a month name following it. (See PHP-doc)

To get the first day of the current year with the relative format you can use something like this:

'first day of January ' . date('Y')

Answer 3

You can get the current date and then set day and month to 1:

$year = new DateTime();
$year->setDate($year->format('Y'), 1, 1);

Optionally, you can set the time to midnight:

$year->setTime(0, 0, 0);

Answer 4

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)); 

Answer 5

echo date('l',strtotime(date('Y-01-01')));