> Here's a tutorial at PHP Builder that I found very helpful when learning > to use PHP's time/date functions. It's easier than you think: > > http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/akent20000610.php3 hi charles hey, welcome back, man, you've been gone a long time that article covers php date handling, which is what adolf asked for (in the subject line) however, he also said > Specific problem is how to increment a value by one day > for a Mysql database limit. I may just add 235959 time to > the datestamp instead of having to write logic for end of month > incrementing. so i'm wondering if perhaps he might prefer to do his date handling in mysql http://mysql.com/doc/D/a/Date_calculations.html it's even easier there ;o) rudy http://rudy.ca/