This just came up today again for me. I have said it before, but even I get lazy and forget. When doing math with dates such as adding days it is really quick to think this works:
<?php
$date = "2011-11-01";
// add 15 days
$new_date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($date) + (86400 * 15));
// $new_date should be 2011-11-16 right?
echo $new_date;
?>
This yields `2011-11-15`.
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