Well, 1st Jan 1970 is the start of the Unix epoch (i.e. what you'd get for doing a date() on a timestamp of 0). Seeing as 31st Dec 1969 is fairly close to this, it's worth checking that header.php exists and that your stat() call isn't returning null or a negative.
if (file_exists ("header.php")) { $modified = stat ("header.php"); echo "Last modified: ".date("F j, Y, g:i a",$modified[9]); } else { echo "Can't find header.php!"; } You could also try with stat("/complete/path/to/header.php"); HTH Jon -----Original Message----- From: Brian V Bonini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2001 14:35 To: PHP Lists Subject: [PHP] Date Why is this: <?php $modified = stat("header.php"); echo "Last Modified: ".date("F j, Y, g:i a",$modified[9]); ?> returning this: Last Modified: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm from this: -rw-r--r-- 1 gfxdesi vuser 1196 Dec 11 09:22 header.php Anyone? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]