Hi, Friday, October 29, 2004, 4:51:20 AM, you wrote: MT> I have a shell script that inserts the unix date and time that the MT> script ran into a MySql database. For example Thu Oct 28 13:41:33 CDT MT> 2004. I would like to have my web page do the math so that it displays MT> the time since the script ran. How can I do the math so that the web MT> page will display something like the script ran 1500 seconds ago. MT> Thanks, MT> mike You can do something like this (replace date with column name no quotes) $result = mysql_query("SELECT SEC_TO_TIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP() - UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2004-10-01 13:45:00')) as diff"); -- regards, Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php