Help plz:Date Format

[delickate]

Hi guys,

 

I'm changing date format. like this

$date = '10/07/2008';

echo $date = date('M j, Y', $date);

its output like this :

Oct 7,2008

it wokrs perfect.

 

but when i fetch date from databse base. its out put is like

Jan 1, 1970

 

i stored the date in date base like : 10/07/2008

 

write the code like:

 

$date = $GB_DATE;  //$GB_DATE is the field name of database table and its value is :10/07/2008

echo $date = date('M j, Y', $date);

 

but its out put is like:

Jan 1, 1970

 

any body know why is happening?

any body have solution plz

 

[JasonLewis]

Have a look at strtotime().

 

echo $date = date('M j, Y', strtotime($date));

[delickate]

i've use this as well but same result

[JasonLewis]

Okay, so $DB_DATE is being set by something like:

$DB_DATE = $data['date'];

 

Make sure that the variable has the date in it. Echo it out somewhere.

[delickate]

yeah value is correct.

i echo it.

is there any solutions