Question

When I run the following code, I get the 30th of April rather than the 27th.

strtotime("Last Friday April 2012");

I tried running it as a Thursday instead and I got back the 29th.

All the following work fine.

strtotime("First Sunday February 2012");
strtotime("Third Monday February 2012");
strtotime("Second Monday October 2012");
strtotime("Fourth Thursday November 2012");

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I believe you are getting back the 30th of March, rather than of April, correct?

Last Friday April 2012 does the following:

• April 2012 sett the date to 2012-04-01
• Last Friday takes the date to the previous (last) Friday which is 2012-03-30

If you want the last Friday in April, use Last Friday May 2012 instead,

See Date/Time – Relative Formats from the PHP manual.