Hi, Friday, March 24, 2006, 9:51:48 AM, you wrote: TC> I have a field, Start_Time, in a MySQL DB. Since it is not a TC> TimeStamp, I believe I cannot use date(), correct? TC> I would like to format 09:00:00 to 9:00 AM. TC> If I convert the 09:00:00 with the strtotime(), I get a couple of TC> extra minutes added. TC> Suggestions are welcomed.... TC> Todd use gmdate() to do the formatting. in strtotime you should give a date something like $ftime = gmdate('h:i A',strtotime("2000-01-01 $Start_Time")); -- regards, Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php