Hi, Try this its a more direct way <?php $today = getdate(); print_r($today); echo $today['mday' ].'-'.$today['mon' ].'-'.$today['year' ].' '.$today['hours'].':'.$today['minutes ']; ?> Array ( [seconds] => 40 [minutes] => 58 [hours] => 21 [mday] => 17 [wday] => 2 [mon] => 6 [year] => 2003 [yday] => 167 [weekday] => Tuesday [month] => June [0] => 1055901520 ) --- On Mon, 2/2/09, malayappa2000 <malayappa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: malayappa2000 <malayappa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: how to split the stirng(02-02-2009 13:24:27) To: php-objects@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 4:01 AM hi guys we are the fallowing sting 01-31-2009 13:24:27 we need to split sec in the above stirng i.e we need out put in the fallowing formta 01-31-2009 13:24 provide some help ho to achive this. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]