Bizzarre and slightly annoying PHP date increment problem.

[Whitewater]

I have the following code which works fine:

$currentSeason = date ('Y') - 1 . "-" . date ('Y');

The output I get is "2007-2008" as expected.

For some reason the following code doesn't want to work:

$currentSeason = date ('Y') . "-" . date ('Y') + 1;

The output I get is "2009" It should be "2008-2009". I think I've coded it incorrectly but can't see where I've gone wrong.

 

[Whitewater]

Odd, (date ('Y') + 1) worked perfectly, thank you