On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Renoir Boulanger <renoirb at gmail.com> wrote: > In fact, as I recall, this is the common ground fordates on every POSIX > compliant system and to my opibion the best way to store a date. Unless you have dates prior to 1970, of course :-) > Generally PHP lets you use it with strftime and the modifier "U". Or just leave it to the DB, e.g. unix_timestamp(now()) between membership_start and membership_end H* -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder at gmail.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan