You are looking for the strtotime function... $original_date = "Sep 12 2004 2:16AM"; $reformat = date ( "m/d/Y" , strtotime ($original_date) ); echo $reformat; -----Original Message----- From: Ron.Herhuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Ron.Herhuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:13 AM To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Date Formatting I see in the manual about how to format the current date using the date() function...but my question is...I have the date in this format: Sep 12 2004 2:16AM And I needed it formatted as: 09/12/2004 (I don't need the time) How do I go about doing that? Thanks, Ron -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php