convert date format

hi guys, I need to convert a date from this format: 2005-03-25 to 25 mar 2005. I have tried the mktime, strftime and the date functions but they all take a time stamp but I only have the dates in the format of 2005-03-25. These are what i tried where $row['date'] is 2005-02-24 but they all return 01 Jan 1970??? echo(mktime(0,0,0, date("j", $row['date']), date("M", $row['date']), date("Y", $row['date']))); echo(strftime("%d", $row['date']) . " " . strftime("%b", $row['date']). " " . strftime("%Y", $row['date'])); echo(date("d",$row['date'] ) . " " . date("M", $row['date']) . " " . date("Y",$row['date'] )); thanks in advance angelo