IIS 4.0 - PHP 4: problems w/ date(Ymd)

[Anon]

I'm tring to set a variable to the current date:

$variable = date(Ymd);

on an NT server running IIS ver. 4 with PHP 4

is this not possible on an NT maching running IIS? This is my 1st vernture into using IIS so I'm at a loss as to where to look.

Most everything else I;ve tried seems to work. I can connect to the MS SQL 7 database with PHP, display images with GD library but I can't get the current date.

Thanks,

-Paul

[Anon]

Wouldn't ya know the minute after I post the this I realize I need to be using gmdate()

-Paul