Discussion of `strtotime` problems eg "this x day " when day not = x gives NEXT x. ESOTERIC pls ignore

Question

EDIT: Two minuses in under a minute. I thought this was a tiny but interesting query.

ORIGINAL QUERY: I am generating a five week calender into which I will pour info (the day and date and other stuff).

I want the top left cell to be the "current" Sunday.

For example if today is Weds 12th then I need to find Sun 9th as the start for the run. Then I just do a $var = strtotime("+1 day", $var) for the next 34 slots.

My problem is doing this neatly if today is Sunday.

At present I have:

date_default_timezone_set("Pacific/Honolulu");
$day_now = time();
$current_day= date ("D", $day_now);
if ($current_day == "Sun") 
{$day_now = strtotime("+1 day", $day_now);} 
$day_now = strtotime("last sunday"); 
//do stuff/

I just wondered if there was a more "tidy" way of doing this.

I tried "this sunday, last sunday, sunday this week" but could find nothing that would pick today as the Sunday and ALSO work for the rest of the week.

Just curious if anyone has found a form of words that works for this with strtotime.

Answer 1

OK strtotime has NO one phrase solution to the current query ('this sunday" for the whole week). (I would call it a bug!)

The linked discussions

Strange behaviour of strtotime() when using relative dates ('this week')

and

Computing relative dates in php using strtotime()

offer solutions.

I like my current solution - while not elegant it is very readable and I know that if I come back to it in a couple of years I will understand what is going on.

Hopefully "this sunday" will be fixed someday instrtotime.

Thanks for the input.