changing mssql date

[valen53]

normally date format in mssql are datetime...
when select the date , result will be 03/25/2003 1200:0:0 something like that..

any method can changing that only display date?
no matter i use below which method , the result incorrect ..

$pdate = date("M/d/Y", mktime($row[APPLY_DATE])) ;

$pdate1 = date("M, d Y", $row[DATE_TO]) ;

any one can help me ...
thank u

[hkucsis]

list ($date, $time) = split (' ', $mssql_date) ; // there should be alway a space between date and time
list ($month, $day, $year) = split ('/', $date) ;
$pdate = "$month/$day/$year" ;

Does it works?

[valen53]

I change a little bit... then working.. thank u

list ($month,$day,$year, $time) = split (' ', $row[APPLY_DATE]) ;
$pdate = "$month, $day $year" ;