how to convert epoch time to human readable time

More information on the date() function here:
http://www.php.net/date

basically you supply a string as the first argument, and your epoch time as your second argument.

To get the full deal something like this would display the time as well:

<?php
      echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s","1196559376");
?>

Hope this helps, to get more examples on what string you should use in the first argument, please refer to the site above.

Oh my, I am not sure how this slipped under my radar! For whatever reason I was thinking of something way more complicated than passing couple of arguments to the date function.

Thanks

no problem glad to help! :)

Here is a handy function that I use all the time, you cna just add formats to return to your hearts content. These are just the most common ones that I use.

function sec2date($ticks,$method = 1){
 if ($method == 1)
  $date= date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $ticks);
 else if ($method == 2)
  $date= date("m/d/y H:i:s", $ticks);
 return $date;
}

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