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Reproduced with PHP 4.3.0-dev.

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I've just tried this on PHP 4.3.0-dev on linux and the function appears to work fine.

Please reset to open.
If this was to be closed it, would be 'close' and not 'bogus', as Jani already confirmed it.

Today's checkout, HEAD and STABLE:
mdev@server21 ~/cvs/php4
$ sapi/cli/php -q
<?php
$today = mktime(9, 28, 0, 4, 4, 2002);
print date("r", $today) . "\n";
print date("r", strtotime("last saturday", $today)) . "\n";
?>
Thu,  4 Apr 2002 09:28:00 +0200
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 23:00:00 +0100

mdev@server21 ~/cvs/php-4.2.3
$ sapi/cli/php -q
<?php
$today = mktime(9, 28, 0, 4, 4, 2002);
print date("r", $today) . "\n";
print date("r", strtotime("last saturday", $today)) . "\n";
?>
Thu,  4 Apr 2002 09:28:00 +0200
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 23:00:00 +0100

So it was fixed by some change. Not bogus, I could reproduce it.

Oops..the original script by sveinp@basefarm.no works now..but the example by msopacua@idg.nl does not..

Works for me.  I get:

Thu,  4 Apr 2002 09:28:00 -0800
Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800

Works fine for me as well, with PHP 4.3.0-dev <1 hour old

Thu,  4 Apr 2002 09:28:00 -0500
Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0500

Rasmus, Ilia.
Please look at your results: The timezone is the same, as there was no DST jump in that weekend for you.

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dstevents.html
 
Please try for one week later.

<?php
$today = mktime(9, 28, 0, 4, 7, 2002);
print date("r", $today) . "\n";
print date("r", strtotime("last saturday", $today)) . "\n";
?>
------------

Sun,  7 Apr 2002 09:28:00 -0400
Sat,  6 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0500


Seems to work fine, even across DST.

After a few more tests I was able to replicate the problem, it appears that if I set the date higher then the date on which the change occurs, the functions messes up.

For example:
<?php
$today = mktime(9, 28, 0, 4, 8, 2002);
print date("r", $today) . "\n";
print date("r", strtotime("last saturday", $today)) . "\n";
?>
------------
Mon,  8 Apr 2002 09:28:00 -0400
Fri,  5 Apr 2002 23:00:00 -0500

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip

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PHP version 4.3.1

reused the code found here recently.

<?php
$today = mktime(9, 28, 0, 4, 1, 2003);
print date("r", $today) . "<BR>";
print date("r", strtotime("last saturday", $today)) . "<BR>";
print date("r", strtotime("last sunday", $today)) . "<BR>";
print date("r", strtotime("last monday", $today)) . "<BR>";
?>

Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:28:00 +0200
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:00:00 +0100
Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:00:00 +0100
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0200

how to handle this? 
everything before monday seems to get 1 day less.