date formatting question

[Bernhard Hörlberger]

I use the following to print out a date:

<?php print date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $aUser["Created Date"]) ?>
// $aUser["Created Date"] contains "2003-08-18 14:21:47"

but what is printed out is the following:

1970-01-01 01:33:23

Any idea why?

thanks a lot in advance,
Bernhard

[Luke Ross]

Re: date formatting question

Hi,

Bernhard Hörlberger wrote:[color=blue]
> I use the following to print out a date:
>
> <?php print date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $aUser["Created Date"]) ?>
> // $aUser["Created Date"] contains "2003-08-18 14:21:47"
>
> but what is printed out is the following:
>
> 1970-01-01 01:33:23
>
> Any idea why?[/color]

The second parameter to date() is a numerical value, the number of
seconds since the epoch (1970-1-1 normally). Your string is cast to the
number 2003, and 2003 seconds since the epoch is the output you get.

See http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php for a function
that will help you :-)

Regards,

Luke