dare to string to date

[MaxD]

I want to make a string with the date in it:

$date = date("YMd");

and write it to a file... and later read it from the file and form it back into a date:

20031121 = Nov 21st, 2003 (or even 11/21/2003)

any simple way to do this?

[LordShryku]

$date = date("Ymd");  

/* notice lower case M
   now insert to file, when you pull it later, use */
$new = date("m/d/Y",strtotime($date));