converting DATETIME to a readable date.

Hi, I have a MySQL table recording errors, 1 of the fields is a DATETIME, to give me the time of the error. I have made a file which will then display a table of errors. I would like to display the date and time in a more readable format, even just with spaces between the years & months etc. Having a look through the php online documentation I found this example: ~~ If you have a MySQL column with of the DATETIME type, and you want to format the values to a different representation, use this code: $date = $row["date"]; $new_date = date("l, j M Y, G:i:s", strtotime($date)); ~~ but I cannot get this to work :(, I get an "unexpected error in date()" I don't (yet) know enough about php to work out what this error is, could someone help. Cheers for your help, Donald __________________________________________ As well as learning more, I learn that there is even more I don't know http://www.donaldrnoble.f2s.com ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯