Maybe what you want is strtotime?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 18:36:15 Damien wrote:How do you use a timestamp when you need the date 18 Aug 1908 on a date
> A solution based on timestamps is much more elegant: timestamps need no
> (database-specific) parsing whatsoever (both on reading and writing to the
> database), they play nice with arithmetic (and thus do not need any helper
> functions), and are consistent with the implementation of most application,
> including Drupal.
field???
Augustin.