Find date months ago, will it miss dates if current month is shorter?

Go directly with strtotime('-3 month') you can also give negatives like -3 on the month param of the mktime and it will work like charm (better the second solution). No, it won't skip days - if "now" is 2011-06-17 it would return timestamp equivalent to 2011-03-17.

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