try

$date = date("Y-m-d",strtotime($timestamp));

Best thing to use if you want to do calcs on date/time data is to use the unix time stamp...translates the timestamp into seconds since 01-01-1970...Much simpler to use in sql queries

Bastien

From: Balwant Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: php-db@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP-DB] timestamp
Date: 29 Jan 2005 19:47:35 +0530

i am facing a problem

i have timestamp in string format --> Fri Jan 28 19:53:09 2005 now i
want to get the date from it.  is it possible? pls. help. on using
strftime("%D",$timestamp) it is giving 01/01/70.  May pls. help me.

Also pls. let me know whether calculation can be done in mysql on this
string timestamp. pls. inform.



with best wishes
balwant

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