Re: I am lost on date()

If you have a string you might want to treat is as such and not involve date() at all? I'm sure there's an elegant way of doing this with date, but the following describes a "string" way. This is tested with the time you mentioned (and whith 17:05:22 to make sure it doesn't chop off anything if first digit isn't a zero). <?php $createdtime='07:05:22'; //just testing with this... //you'd stick your timestamp here echo "$createdtime is the unformatted time<br>"; $first_digit=substr($createdtime,0,1); //this picks out 1 character in position 0 //which is the start of the string if ($first_digit==0) { $createdtime=substr($createdtime,1,7); //return the 7 last (from position 1 and onwards) //characters if first digit is zero } echo "$createdtime is stripped of the leading zero (if any)"; ?> Generic Player wrote: <snip> > I just want to chop off the > leading 0 on a date such as 07:05:22. </snip>