fstorr wrote: ***** SORRY ***** <tip type="php dates"> Don't know if this is obvious, but a colleague has been coding PHP for several years was strugglig with PHP dates. Manipulating dates with PHP is easy using the strtotime function: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php </tip> Can't believe I did that. And I'm still sober. Hangs head in shame as he'd thought he'd checked the address. F