RE: [PHP] Date Question

You might try converting these dates to Unix time and then compare the numbers as integers. Let's see, here is a function that converts the data from a MySQL date field to a Unix timestamp... function mysql_to_epoch ($datestr) { list($year,$month,$day,$hour,$minute,$second) = split("([^0-9])",$datestr); return date("U",mktime($hour,$minute,$second,$month,$day,$year)); } And here is where I use it to calculate the age of the item in the database. $epochTime = mysql_to_epoch($messageCreated); $currentEpochTime = time(); $ageInSeconds = $currentEpochTime - $epochTime; I hope this provides a clue for your application. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris [mailto:php_list@ibcnetwork.net] > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:12 PM > To: php > Subject: [PHP] Date Question > > > Hi, > Since there is no Date type in php, is there a way to compare dates? > > Something like: > > if ((3/8/2001) < (3/9/2001)){ > // Date is newer > } > > Thanks, > Chris >