strtotime returning date at 12:05 am

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

I'm trying to make a countdown to a certain date by taking the current time and subtracting it from a timestamp of a future date.  For the future date I'm using strtotime().  This is the string I'm using:

 

strtotime("3 May 2010");

 

But the returned timestamp gives me Monday, May 3, 2010 12:05:00 am.  Why is it adding 5 minutes to my timestamp?  I've tried changing the string I'm using for my time, I've tried these:

 

3 may 2010 midnight

3 may 2010 12:00 am

3 may 2010 00:00

 

None seem to work, I'm still getting 12:05 am.  Even if I put 1:30 am or something like that it goes to 1:05.  Can anyone think of a reason for this?

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

I'm sorry, I figured it out guys, I was using this string for my date function:

 

l, F d, Y g:m:s a

 

minutes isn't m it's i, so it should be:

 

l, F d, Y g:i:s a

 

It's working now.  Sorry for the useless thread.