Oops, got it all wrong. Thought it was a "real" timestamp, but it's already the date, only formatted in a different way.
The date() function expects a Unix-timestamp as its second argument. Thus you could try to leave the conversion to MySQL by using UNIX_TIMESTAMP(your_timestamp_column) or if you want to do it in PHP use mktime(). http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php <?php $date1="20020123143547"; $date1_year=substr($date1, 0, 4); $date1_month=substr($date1, 4, 2); $date1_day=substr($date1, 6, 2); $date1_hour=substr($date1, 8, 2); $date1_minute=substr($date1, 10, 2); $date1_second=substr($date1, 12, 2); $date=date("d M Y H:i", mktime($date1_hour, $date1_minute, $date1_second, $date1_month, $date1_day, $date1_year); ?> Hope that helps Marcus > have a look at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php > > According to your example, it would be something like: > <?php > $date1=date("d M Y H:i", 20020123143547); > ?> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
