[snip] That's not quite what I am talking about. I looked at that already. I can could also put the date and time that the script was ran into the MySql database by have a TIMESTAMP field in the database. [/snip] You can use that to convert your time in the DB, get the current time when seeking as epoch time, subtract one from the other....no? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php