On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm puzzled why the if statement executes as true when the first date (job_closedate) is not less than the second date (now). > The if statement claims that "12/02/2011" is less than "11/30/2011". > > if (date("m/d/Y",strtotime($jobs_closedate)) <= date("m/d/Y",strtotime("now"))){ You're comparing strings here, try to compare the unix timestamp: if (strtotime($jobs_closedate) <= strtotime("now")){ That'll probably do what you want.. Matijn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php