Well, I found the problem. it wasn't happening where I thought it was.
which brings up another question I'll have to ask in a new subject about
output buffering.

On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 18:00, Jeff Bearer wrote:
> It's all returning proper dates and the proper timestamps when I check
> them inside the loop.  I'm formatting the dates in YYYY-MM-DD format and
> strtotime is returning the proper timestamps.  I'm curious how can you
> say it's a problem with the dates when the if statement comparing the
> same expression as the while loop works properly?
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 13:09, Steven Walker wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > 
> > The problem is most likely with incrementing $event_data. It's hard to 
> > say without seeing the rest of the code.
> > 
> > Steven J. Walker
> > Walker Effects
> > www.walkereffects.com
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > > I have a problem while loop that isn't terminating when it's supposed
> > > to.  I can't figure out what the problem is, if I run a comparison
> > > inside the while loop it matches as it should, but for some reason the
> > > same comparison isn't working as the while loop expression. I get an
> > > infinite loop when I run this code.
> > >
> > > while(strtotime($event_date) <= strtotime($end_date)){
> > >   # test to see if the loop should of stopped.
> > >   if(strtotime($event_date) <= strtotime($end_date))
> > >           echo "GO!!\n";
> > >   else echo "STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n";
> > >
> > >   /* omitted code that finds the next $event_date */
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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