title: Computing relative dates in php using strtotime()
body: <p>I'm looking for a reliable way to return the full date of a specified weekday (e.g. "Mon") for the <em>current</em> week.</p>
  
  <p>Since today is Wednesday, June 13, 2012, I expected <code>&lt;?php echo date("Y-m-d", strtotime('Mon this week')); ?&gt;</code> to result in <code>2012-06-11</code>, but instead php returns <code>2012-06-18</code> as though it interprets <strong>this week</strong> as meaning <strong>next week</strong>.  Why this behavior and what should I be doing?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>--Jeff</p>