Re: mktime and variables not working

mktime have the folloing format int mktime (int hour, int minute, int second, int month, int day, int year) I don't understand what represent $x[stop]. maybe time in hh:mm:ss format? if is that you ca use $reformat_stop=explode(":",$x[stop].":"."1:1:2001") stop=mktime($reformat_stop[0],$reformat_stop[1],$reformat_stop[2],$reformat_ stop[3],$reformat_stop[4],$reformat_stop[5]) be careful $stop is a timpstamp and you must use in combination with date() function. look in manual for more details about function date(); -- Best regards, George Nicolae IT Manager ___________________ X-Playin - Professional Web Design www.x-playin.f2s.com "Tom Beidler" <tom@orbittechservices.com> wrote in message news:B859B092.33D1%tom@orbittechservices.com... > I'm trying to calculate elapsed time and I'm having trouble using mktime > with variables. Here's my code; > > > $reformat_stop = str_replace(":", ",", $x[stop]) . ",1,1,2002"; > $stop=mktime($reformat_stop); > > I don't know how to format the code for mktime to use a variable. I keep > getting -1 for $stop but if I hard code a value in mktime it works fine. > >