Re: date prob. subtracting days

On Monday 19 May 2003 16:17, Merlin wrote: > I want to subtract todays date from a date in the past and know if this > date is more than 14 days back. Somehow I am lost in the date, timestamp, > mktime joungle :-) So far I do get the days back, but only if they are in > the same month. It just takes care of the day, not of month and year. I > know that this could be easily done with mysql functions, but in this case > I need to do them in php after getting the whole dataset. If you don't want to use mysql's built-in date functions (you ought to), convert both dates to unix-timestamps then subtract and compare. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Victory uber allies! */