Comparing output for `current_period` and `past` values of `PREFER_DATES_FROM` setting

[imohitmayank]

I observed one interesting behavior where for some cases the current_period and past values of PREFER_DATES_FROM return the same result but it's different for others. For example, suppose today is Thursday 23th, then

text = "Thursday"
print(dateparser.parse(text, settings={'PREFER_DATES_FROM': 'current_period'}))
>>> 2021-12-23 00:00:00
print(dateparser.parse(text, settings={'PREFER_DATES_FROM': 'past'}))
>>> 2021-12-16 00:00:00

This is the expected behavior, where for current_period we get today's date (at the time of writing) i.e. 23rd, and for past its last Thursday 16th.

Now for another case,

text = "Friday"
print(dateparser.parse(text, settings={'PREFER_DATES_FROM': 'current_period'}))
>>> 2021-12-17 00:00:00
print(dateparser.parse(text, settings={'PREFER_DATES_FROM': 'past'}))
>>> 2021-12-17 00:00:00

Here, the output is the same for both cases. But shouldn't the current_period return the nearest Friday or at least the Friday of the ongoing week which will be 24th and not last Friday that is 17th?