Re: display date

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 wooik@halfmind.com wrote: > 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. > It's probably because the datetime looks like a string to PHP, and PHP converts strings that don't start with a number into 0. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>