[RESOLVED] convert string to date

[j_70]

I have string dates with the following format:

mm/dd/yyyy

I need to convert these to a date to evaluate them against the system time. I do not need a timestamp, just the day-date. Do I have to use the mktime function or is there a function that does not use time?

[davidjames52]

You can convert a string to a date with this.
$new_date = date("m/d/Y", strtotime($datestring));