From: Aleksandar Lazic Date: 2006-11-12T03:20:08+09:00 Subject: Re: best way to get epoch seconds from mysql datetime value On Son 12.11.2006 03:12, shawn bright wrote: >i suppose i could use that, i am working with mysql 5 ( oh, the luxury) >i am just not that knowledgeable with it. http://www.mysql.org/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html Same there => UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date) Hth Aleks