Sander, I'm also in Europe but here in the UK we prefer dd/mm/yyyy and I've cobbled together a couple of functions to handle this for me.
function dbdate($input) { $today = explode("-",$input); $month = $today[1]; $day = $today[2]; $year = $today[0]; $p_date = $day . "/" . $month . "/" . $year ; return $p_date; } function revdate($input) { $today = explode("/",$input); $day = $today[0]; $month = $today[1]; $year = $today[2]; $revdate = $year . "-" . str_pad($month, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT) . "-" . str_pad($day, 2, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT); return $revdate; } I've stored these in a file which I include and any call to the db to display dates uses the dbdate() function and if I want to insert or update a date then I use the revdate() function. There are probably better ways to do this. Hope this helps. George in Edinburgh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sander Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 7:56 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] convert yyyy/mm/dd to mm/dd/yyyy, how? > Hello everybody, > > convert yyyy/mm/dd to mm/dd/yyyy, how? > > MYSQL does everything in yyyy/mm/dd. > I live in the Netherlands and we are use to the format dd/mm/yyyy. > > What's the best way to display it as mm/dd/yyyy in a table on a query? > > My first idea whas to split the date up in vars in php and then print > the vars in the way I like it > Is this a bad idea? Or are there better sollutions? > > Thanx in advance for answering! > > > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet / With Greetings, > > Sander Peters > > site: http://www.visionnet.nl/ > email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > webmail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.307 / Virus Database: 168 - Release Date: 11/12/01 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]