added a method to force the provided start date to the first occurence

[pospi]

I figured this was best implemented as a separate method so that it can be explicitly called if desirable and devs can continue to use their own exception handling otherwise.

also refactored date component extraction logic for reuse

[BarryDam]

Perfect! Just what I needed.

p.s. if you return the When object (return $this) in your adjustStartDate method you can do something like this:

$r->rrule("FREQ=WEEKLY;DTSTART=20150902T000000;UNTIL=20151018T235959;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=MO")
   ->adjustStartDate()
  ->generateOccurrences();

[bobemoe]

This looks really useful... how come no merge?

Is there another way to find the next occurrence after Now?

I've tried $r->RFC5545_COMPLIANT = When::IGNORE; but still get the The start date must be the first occurrence. exception.

[tplaner]

This should not be needed since we have the ability to ignore the exception now.

@bobemoe the correct usage is:

$when = new When();
$when->RFC5545_COMPLIANT = When::IGNORE;

Definitely works, I use it frequently.

Feel free to open an issue with more detailed code showing a bug. Thanks!