> Thanks for this - I'll experiment and see if I have it. Basically I never > read the strtotime doc close enough to get past the word "now" in the > syntax. Obviously it is EXACTLY what I needed. $var = strtotime('now'); Is the same as $var = time(); Unless of course, I didn't understand what you're referring too :P But strtotime() is a very useful function, unless of course you want the OO stuff ;) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php