note 19437 added to function.strtotime

What you should or shouldn't do, totally depends on your context. For instance, using format functions in WHERE clauses, disables the use of the index on that field in mySQL I tried the EXPLAIN on postgres, but that doesn't give me much information And something like this: <?php class task { function task($db, $id) { $sql="SELECT * FROM tasks WHERE id='$id'"; $rs=pg_exec($db, $sql); $row=pg_fetch_row($rs); foreach($row as $key => $value) { $this->$key=$value; } } } ?> becomes totally unusable. While it is questionable to parse date-output as a string, because one depends on both the DB output and the php parser not changing, it can be quite useful. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+19437 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+19437 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+19437