If I were doing this for simplicity's sake I would alter this to be: $timestamp = mktime(); $date_output = date("Y-m-d H:i A", $timestamp); Then store the $timestamp in the (pseudo)database. Any operations I need to compare times will be done on the $timestamp data rather than the $date_output data which contains a bunch of string data that would otherwise have to be compensated for with more code. -- phill -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]