note 104055 added to function.date

I needed to find out the Greater or Lesser dates for a few results sets. I'm not running 5.3 so I came up with this function to return either the greater or lesser date. The function is expecting dates in the MM/DD/YYYY format and the 3rd variable that is is looking for is either G or L so it will know whether to return the lesser or greater date. function greater_lesser_date($date1,$date2,$gl = false){ ///$gl is expecting either a G or an L to know whether you want ///greater or lesser returned $d1m = substr($date1,0,2); $d1d = substr($date1,3,2); $d1y = substr($date1,6,4); $d1 = mktime(0,0,0,$d1m,$d1d,$d1y); $d2m = substr($date2,0,2); $d2d = substr($date2,3,2); $d2y = substr($date2,6,4); $d2 = mktime(0,0,0,$d2m,$d2d,$d2y); if( strtoupper($gl) == 'L') { $date = ($d1>$d2?$d2:$d1); } else { $date = ($d1<$d2?$d2:$d1); } return date('m/d/Y', $date); } ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 174.127.8.233 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/104055 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104055/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104055/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104055/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104055/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104055/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104055/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/104055 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/104055 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php