note 14095 deleted from ref.datetime by victor

For those who want portable timestamps between ODBC-compliant datasources, use the following format: {ts '1890-12-30 00:00:00'} (The above timestamp is associated as the "zero-base" in many datasources) So, to use the above timestamp in a query, do something like this: INSERT INTO MyTable (Table_ID, Table_TS) VALUES (1, {ts '1890-12-30 00:00:00'}) If you just want to use the date, use this: {d '1890-12-30'} Or just the time: {t '00:00:00'} That should ease someone's pain. Instead of running a query against the database for a timestamp (which is generally slow), you can generate one real-time. For instance: echo "{ts '".gmdate("Y-m-d h:i:s", time())."'}"; It is just a matter of modifying the above code for whatever queries you need to perform. MacTruck (BTW, if you can't tell, those are braces '{}' rather than parenthesis '()' surrounding the timestamp...they are also known as "escape characters" in ODBC terminology).