Hmm why doesn't this work?

[Anon]

function mydate($something)
{

$day = substr("$something", 4, 5);
$month = substr("$something", 2, 3);
$year = substr("$something", 0, 1);
return date ("d/m-y", $day, $mont, $year);
}

It's supposed to be i norwegian timestamp =)

DD/MM-YY

[andreash]

First define $something so I can see more about your problem.
And the date function does not work like that.

time(); // Is right now in seconds
To get the date from this you should put it into the date

echo date("d/m-y", time());

[stephanie]

try that:

<?
//convert date formatted such as '2001-01-30' to new pattern

function convert_date ($date_to_convert,$pattern_date){
$year= substr($date_to_convert, 0,4);
$month= substr($date_to_convert, 5,2);
$day= substr($date_to_convert, -2);
$newdate = date ("$pattern_date", mktime (0,0,0,$month,$day,$year));
return $newdate;
};

$today = date ("Y-m-d");

print "<P><b>Today converted</b> : " . convert_date ($today, "d/m-y");

?>