Re: Comparing two dates.. Which is the older one?

Thanks.. So $date_output should only be used to print out current time, and $timestamp is the one I should use to compare the dates? - Richard ""Phillip Bow"" <philb@oreilly.com> wrote in message news:998rej$16l$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... > If I were doing this for simplicity's sake I would alter this to be: > $timestamp = mktime(); > $date_output = date("Y-m-d H:i A", $timestamp); > Then store the $timestamp in the (pseudo)database. Any operations I need to > compare times will be done on the $timestamp data rather than the > $date_output data which contains a bunch of string data that would otherwise > have to be compensated for with more code. > -- > phill > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >