select lo_date from payperiod; lo_date ---------------------- 1999-12-16 00:00:00-05 1999-12-30 00:00:00-05 lo_date is defined as timestamp. In PHP3 I retreive the rows and lo_date ends up in $row[2]. echo $row[2], date('D M-j',$row[2]), strftime('%a %b-%d',$row[2]); yeilds 1999-12-16 00:00:00-05Wed Dec-31Wed Dec-31 1999-12-30 00:00:00-05Wed Dec-31Wed Dec-31 Is there another function call I need between PSQL and PHP3? Frank