Newby: DATE Question

Hi everyone, Sorry for this basic question, but I can't seem to get the code to work. In my MySQL database I have a column that is a TIMESTAMP to automatically stamp the date when created. However, I can't get it to pull correctly into my php result. Here is a sample of one record that has the value of 20021024083050 in the date column. In my php code I have the following pieces of coding (there's more than this, but this is what's returning the date). $query = "SELECT * FROM posting ORDER BY date DESC"; $date = strftime("%d/%m/%y", $thread['date']); And this is the result I receive: Result: 18/01/38 PLEASE help. I have changed the code and can't get it to work. Thank you!!!!! Doug Coning