<?php
// this text was used in 2002
// we want to get this up to date for 2003
$text = "April fools day is 04/01/2002\n";
$text.= "Last christmas was 12/24/2001\n";

echo mb_ereg_replace_callback(
            "(\d{2}/\d{2}/)(\d{4})",
            function ($matches) {
               return $matches[1].($matches[2]+1);
            },
            $text);
?>