Thanks.. So $date_output should only be used to print out current time, and $timestamp is the one I should use to compare the dates? - Richard ""Phillip Bow"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 998rej$16l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:998rej$16l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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] > -- 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]