note 94423 modified in function.strtotime by danbrown

I needed to generate timestamps for specific days of the week in a month (e.g. the 2nd wednesday or the 3rd friday). After messing about with different syntax, I found this works pretty consistently: strtotime('+0 week sun nov 2009'); // first sunday in nov 2009 strtotime('+1 week sun nov 2009'); // second sunday strtotime('-1 week sun nov 2009'); // last sunday in oct 2009 This is helping me considerably in parsing ical spec's RRULE sets for example. --was-- The docs for strtotime() are sorely lacking in what one's options are. I needed to generate timestamps for specific days of the week in a month (e.g. the 2nd wednesday or the 3rd friday). After messing about with different syntax, I found this works pretty consistently: strtotime('+0 week sun nov 2009'); // first sunday in nov 2009 strtotime('+1 week sun nov 2009'); // second sunday strtotime('-1 week sun nov 2009'); // last sunday in oct 2009 This is helping me considerably in parsing ical spec's RRULE sets for example. http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php