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    //Every Last Thursday in November, every year, five times:

    $start = "2014-11-27 00:00:00";

    $rule = 'FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1TH;BYMONTH=11;COUNT=5;WKST=SU';

    //  ==> (2014 00:00 AM EDT)November 27

    //      (2015 00:00 AM EDT)November 26

    //      (2016 00:00 AM EDT)November 24

    //      (2017 00:00 AM EDT)November 30

    //      (2018 00:00 AM EDT)November 29

    $dates = date_repeat_calc($rule, $start, NULL, array());

    $shouldbe = '2014-11-27 00:00:00, 2015-11-26 00:00:00, 2016-11-24 00:00:00, 2017-11-30 00:00:00, 2018-11-29 00:00:00';

    $result = implode(', ', $dates);

    $this->assertEqual($result, $shouldbe, $rule . '; Starting ' . $start . ';  results: ' . $result);