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

Basically, yes, it subtracts half a day (43200 seconds) from $now until the stringification of localtime($now) ($now represented as a string like 'Sat Aug 21 06:33:51 2010') contains 'Sun' for Sunday.