Is this purely an intellectual exercise or is there a reason you don't just subtract the right number of days from your start date to get the beginning of the week?

It is required to be able to run a report which is querying a mysql database for records of a particular week. Not a problem if the report is run on say a Monday it would return the required info but if say it was run on a Wednesday it would contain part of the current week and part of the following week using mysql's interval week.

EG: xxxxx AND `s_date` >= DATE_SUB( CURDATE( ) , INTERVAL 8 WEEK ) AND `s_date` < DATE_SUB( CURDATE( ) , INTERVAL 7 WEEK ) So I need to replace CURDATE( ) with the date of the Sunday of the week the report is being run preferably in the format YYYY-MM-DD

In reply to Re: Is there an easy way to get the start date of the current week? by ramjamman
in thread Is there an easy way to get the start date of the current week? by ramjamman

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