date

I am pulling from a datetime field in mysql. The actual data looks like this: 2002-11-30 00:00:00 When I output the data to the page, I want it to appear as 11/30/2002. I want to use a php date format. I do not want it formatted as it comes out of the db. But date("m/d/y", $myrow[departdate]) returns 12/31/69. How can I do this? THanks, Eddie