display date

Before I asked my question, just want to let you all know that I did look up the manual to find the answer, but can't seem to find it. Anyway, the problem that I have: I have a postgres database the returns a datetime field. I want to display it as MMM DD, YYYY (e.g. Nov 15, 2000), The following is what I have <?php echo date("M d, Y", $r[4]); ?> <== $r[4] contains Dec 16, 2000 but what I got back is "Dec 31, 1969". Am I missing something again?? wooi. p/s Brain, if you are reading this email, just want to thank you for answering me my previous question :-) But I did try to find the answer in the php manual and some other php sites.