Date comparison going wrong, wrong, wrong

["Terry Ally (Gmail)" <terryally@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I am having a problem with comparing time. I am using the following:

$todaydate = date("D, M jS, Y g:i:s a");
$showenddate = date("D, M jS, Y g:i:s a",
strtotime($showsRecord['end_date']));

if ($todaydate > $showenddate):
    echo "The date of the show has not yet arrived";
else:
    echo "The show has ended";
endif;

The problem that I am encountering is that PHP is rendering the reverse of
the equation. For example:

If today's date is *11 Nov 2012* and the show's end date is *18 Nov 2012*,
the message that I am getting is *the show has ended* which is wrong. A
test example is at http://www.lakesidesurrey.co.uk/test.php.

You can also me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks
Terry