Re: Date() Problem

Alternativly you could store the dates as UNIX timestamps. That is what I do. It is then eaiser to do certian things(ie show stuff released in the last month) -- JJ Harrison webmaster@tececo.com www.tececo.com "Tony Harrison" <tonyh21@tharrison21.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:20020727093802.11015.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Yeh, ive allready looked at that before, but where and when do i use > DATE_FORMAT() ? When im inserting the row or selecting it? > > "Jome" <jome@emoj.net> wrote in message > news:20020727093525.8534.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > > Hi, im making a tab/lyric portal, and for viewing tabs i want to display > > the > > > time the lyric/tab was submitted. So I retrive it from a MySQL database > > (as > > > a timestamp) and format it using the date function. The problem is, that > > the > > > date: 19-01-2038 04:14:07 is allways returned, even though in the date > > > field the timestamp says (as an actual example) 20020723200919. > > > > > > Here is a shortened version of the script: > > > > > > <?php $submitdate = date("d-m-Y H:i:s", $values[4]); > > > echo("Submitted on > > > $submitdate"); ?> > > > > > > > Hi Tony, > > > > the date() function in PHP does _only_ take UNIX timestamps as an argument > > which means that you can not run such a timestamp as the above. > > > > I recommend that you have a look at > > http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/a/Date_and_time_functions.html > > which describes > > the built-in functions for date-handling in MySQL. A function to look at > > could be DATE_FORMAT(). > > > > Regards, > > > > Jome > > > > > >