Numeric representation of the day of the week. MySQL, Excel or PHP approaches to specify these date time.

Weekday

Day Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Weekday (ISO-8601 PHP date N character) 7 1 2 3 4 5 6
Weekday (MySQL) 6 0 1 2 3 4 5
Weekday (Excel) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Weekday (PHP date w character) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6


Get the date

Day Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Last week MySQL: SELECT CURDATE() + INTERVAL -8 - WEEKDAY(CURDATE()) DAY;
Excel: =NOW()-WEEKDAY(NOW())-6
PHP: (1) echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("last Saturday")) . PHP_EOL; (2) echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime('last Saturday', strtotime("2018-03-04 00:01:00"))) . PHP_EOL;
This week MySQL: SELECT CURDATE() + INTERVAL -1 - WEEKDAY(CURDATE()) DAY;
Excel: =NOW()-WEEKDAY(NOW())+1
MySQL: SELECT CURDATE() + INTERVAL 0 - WEEKDAY(CURDATE()) DAY;
Excel: =NOW()-WEEKDAY(NOW())+2
MySQL: SELECT CURDATE() + INTERVAL 1 - WEEKDAY(CURDATE()) DAY;
Excel: =NOW()-WEEKDAY(NOW())+3
MySQL: SELECT CURDATE() + INTERVAL 2 - WEEKDAY(CURDATE()) DAY;
Excel: =NOW()-WEEKDAY(NOW())+4
MySQL: SELECT CURDATE() + INTERVAL 3 - WEEKDAY(CURDATE()) DAY;
Excel: =NOW()-WEEKDAY(NOW())+5
MySQL: SELECT CURDATE() + INTERVAL 4 - WEEKDAY(CURDATE()) DAY;
Excel: =NOW()-WEEKDAY(NOW())+6
MySQL: SELECT CURDATE() + INTERVAL 5 - WEEKDAY(CURDATE()) DAY;
Excel: =NOW()-WEEKDAY(NOW())+7
PHP: echo date('Y-m-d', strtotime("Saturday")) . PHP_EOL;
Next week MySQL: SELECT CURDATE() + INTERVAL 6 - WEEKDAY(CURDATE()) DAY;
Excel: =NOW()-WEEKDAY(NOW())+8

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