Thanks Chris. It has been a while since I used this command. Ron On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 13:27 +1000, Chris wrote: > Ron Piggott wrote: > > Where $date_reference is 2009-04-18 the following code gives me a day of > > 1969-12-30. How do I get it to be 2009-04-17? > > > > $previous_date = strtotime("-1 days", $date_reference); > > $previous_date = date('Y-m-d', $previous_date); > > Slightly wrong syntax. > > $previous_date = strtotime("$date_reference -1 days"); >