I've been going a little crazy here with a single line of code that should work, but doesn't. It's probably has something to do with the fact that I've been staring at pages of code for months on end. In order to make user that nobody is screwing with the database while the daily backups and maintainence are running, I decided to make a little thing that would keep people from logging in, etc. Here's the line: if (strftime("%H") == "03") { header( "Location: maintainence.php" ); } In theory, if it's any time between 03:00:00 and 03:59:59 the user should be redirected to the page maintainence.php, but when testing it passes over this line without a blip. Any ideas? Feeling fried, --JMR