MS SQL almost for sure has a way to do this in your SQL, which will be
faster than PHP's mktime() anyway.
You'll have to read the MS SQL docs to find it, though...
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From: "James Crowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.general
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:31 PM
Subject: [PHP] MS SQL and Date Fields
> Hi,
> I have a problem (!). I am using an MS SQL db, which returns a date field.
> How can I format this using the date() function? ie how can I convert the
> date to a Unix timestamp? I know you can use the mktime() function, but in
> which case, how can I get the day/month/year etc from the ms sql date
> field?!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> - James
>
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