David > i have to different dates and i want to know the > difference between them in days. Any ideas? == date difference The internal format of date is a number with the seconds from 1970. You can get the difference between two dates with a substraction, and you get the number of seconds between these two dates... You can divide this number by 24 * 3600 (a day) http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/php/datediff.php You can see several functions... http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/php/php-datediff-function/ You can read about date hnadling in php http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/PHP/Date_Time/index.html http://www.php.net/date == libraries ?? You can see different PHP Date Libraries... From ADOdb... http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/adodb_date_library Or from PEAR http://pear.php.net/package/Date Or from PHPClasses http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2105.html 8-) Jaime PHP Data object relational mapping generator - http://www.meta-language.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/