Maybe what you want is strtotime?<br><br><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php">http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:59 PM, augustin (beginner) <<a href="mailto:drupal.beginner@wechange.org">drupal.beginner@wechange.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Wednesday 02 July 2008 18:36:15 Damien wrote:<br>
> A solution based on timestamps is much more elegant: timestamps need no<br>
> (database-specific) parsing whatsoever (both on reading and writing to the<br>
> database), they play nice with arithmetic (and thus do not need any helper<br>
> functions), and are consistent with the implementation of most application,<br>
> including Drupal.<br>
<br>
</div>How do you use a timestamp when you need the date 18 Aug 1908 on a date<br>
field???<br>
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Augustin.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ashraf Amayreh<br><a href="http://blogs.aamayreh.org">http://blogs.aamayreh.org</a>