php strtotime “last monday” if today is monday?

Question

I want to use strtotime(\"last Monday\").

The thing is, if today IS MONDAY, what does it return? It seems to be returning the date for the monday of la

Answer 1

Depending on exactly what you're using it for, this may be useful. Since one second's ambiguity is OK for my requirements, I use:

date( 'Y-m-d 23:59:59', strtotime( 'last sunday' ))

to get midnight on the most recent Monday (or today if today IS Monday).