PHP: Week starts on Monday, but “monday this week” on a Sunday gets Monday next week

Question

Here\'s a summary of the issue: On Sundays, strtotime(\'this week\') returns the start of next week.

In PHP, the week seems to start on Monday. But, on

Answer 1

It's not ideal but this is what I resorted to using:

if(date('N') == 7) { 
    $date = date('Y-m-d',strtotime('monday last week'));
} else {
    $date = date('Y-m-d',strtotime('monday this week'));
}

Answer 2

  I think the only problem with your coding is TimeZone.

Solution:
Set your own time Zone. Here is the example of my own time zone:

Example

   date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');


   Set the above line before calling any time function.

Have a nice day.

Answer 3

Based on Bryant answer :

$first_week_date = date('d F Y', strtotime('next Monday -1 week', strtotime('this sunday')));
$last_week_date = date('d F Y', strtotime('next Monday -1 week + 6 days', strtotime('this sunday')));

Answer 4

As far as I can tell, this is a bug. I see no logical reason why strtotime('this week'); should return a future date. This is a pretty major bug. In my particular case, I had a leaderboard that showed the users with the most points since the beginning of the week. But on Sundays, it was empty because strtotime returned a timestamp for a future date. I was doubtful, because just I don't know how this could have gone unnoticed, but I couldn't find any other reports of this bug.

Thanks for all your time and help, folks.