Re: [GENERAL] extracting date information?

On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 01:27:02PM -0500, Jackson, DeJuan wrote:
> > Now that my dates are being retreived in this format:
> > Sat Dec 12 00:00:00 1998 CET
> >
> > Is there a way to format this to leave off the "time" portion and
> > maybe
> > the "timezone" info ?
> >
> Since you're using php why don't you try (with you date datatype):
> $date = '1998-05-05';
> list($year, $mon, $day) = explode('-', $date);
> echo $date('l M d, Y', mktime(0,0,0,$mon, $day, $year));

I have a similar problem which could be solved if i knew a possibility to
convert datetime values to date values. There is only a function provided
for the opposite direction.

Werner
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