[SOLVED] unix date

[richiec]

I will try and explain this best i can, i have an update page where users can select different things and put due at different times...

 

It puts the time and date they chose into a DB.. Currently i have them putting the date in unix format year-month-day (it needs to be for things which i do with the date) but on the page where users can see that date i would like to show it in a different format like day-month-year

 

hopefuly that explains what i want to do...

 

Does anyone know how i can do that?

 

Thanks

 

Rich

[cooldude832]

if it is a mysql Date Time field or Date field the function strtotime can convert it to a unix time stamp

 

i.e

<?php
$date = $row['Date'];
$date_reformed = date("m-d-y",strtotime($date);
echo "The original date: ".$date."<br />The New Date: ".$date_reformed;
?>
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[dfowler]

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

 

That should get you going.

[richiec]

that worked great thank you both!

 

~Rich