New Newbie Question

Here is my problem: When I get the value of $date and I echo it it shows up just fine $date = date("Y-m-d H:i"); echo "$date"; 2004-05-15 16:20 but when I go to insert the value into a form like this Time:<INPUT type="text" name="Date_and_Time" value=<? echo "$date"; ?> size="50"><br> it only displays 2004-05-15 why is this????????? Annoying <html> <title> Master Station Log </title> <body text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000"> <? $date = date("Y-m-d H:i"); echo "$date"; ?> Time:<INPUT type="text" name="Date_and_Time" value=<? echo "$date"; ?> size="50"><br> </body </html>