I would use date and mktime, personally, as strtotime often does things I consider "strange" On Sun, February 10, 2008 5:46 am, Ron Piggott wrote: > > I am trying to calculate what was the date 18 months ago. When I give > the command: > > $18_months_ago = strtotime("-18 months"); > > It comes back with: > > Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_LNUMBER, expecting T_VARIABLE > > How would you calculate 18 months ago from today? > > Ron > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php