Problems with date function

Hi everybody I hope someone can help me in an issue on where i've been stuck for a while. I'm trying to show a date from a Table in SQLServer7 when i use this : <tr><td align="right" width="60%"><? echo (odbc_result($resultd1,'date1'));?></td></tr> the browser shows me the date correctly and the result is this: 2002-02-01 11:31:00 Obviously i want to format the date so i use the date() function and the code is like this: <tr><td align="right" width="60%"><? echo date("m d Y",odbc_result($resultado,'fechaasignacion'));?></td></tr> But when i want to see the date in the browser the date doesn´t match with the real date and the result is this: 12 31 1969 Does anybody knows how coul i fix this, so the displayed date matches with the one that is in the database? Thank a lot George