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

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')