EPOCH Time format

[fnbcprog]

I have a little problem...

I have a form that submits the date to a MySQL database in this format:
xx/xx/xxxx

I want to take that format and convert it to EPOCH format to compare in order to sort the date from earliest to latest.

How do I convert to that format?

Thanks for the help!!!

[RedDragon]

i never heard of epoch format, can you tell me some more about it, also you might try using unixtime

[devinemke]

$date = '01/23/2003';
$epoch = strtotime ($date);

now $epoch can be used for comparison purposes

[fnbcprog]

It is supposedly some format that converts the date into a number and then the numbers can be compared to other dates to sort.

[RedDragon]

yes thats what i meant with unixtime, didnt know that it is also called epoch