You can use date('YmdHis',strtotime($your_date_string)); check http://ro.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php for more about the date function. On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 18:06 -0700, Graham Anderson wrote: > I need to batch convert a bunch of date strings into mysql time stamps: > > If I have the following: > May 7, 2005, 7:29 pm > > how do I convert that to a MySQL Timestamp like: > 20050507192957 > > many thanks > > g > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php