date conflict with old news archive

God i hope this is simple :)
I have news bloggs section on my site. At present the news is loaded in
from a txt file, most of the site is now running with most sections being
loaded via mysqldb's.
I would like to add the old entries to the new db that i have setup for the
bloggs.
My problem is converting the date format from 12-08-03 to the time stamp to
be stored int the db. It has to be done this way as new entries will be
using the time stamp

So in the php file i have
$dateAdded = time();
but time would then be 1064245532
i need
date=12-08-03
$dateAdded = date(convert) to time stamp

cheers
Paul

Cheers your a star :)

"Eugene Lee" <list-php@fsck.net> wrote in message
news:20030923202437.GD1583@localhost.Earthlink.net ...
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:01:19PM +0100, [ PAUL FERRIE ] wrote:
> :
> : God i hope this is simple :)
>
> It is. I think. :-)
>
> : I have news bloggs section on my site. At present the news is loaded in
> : from a txt file, most of the site is now running with most sections
being
> : loaded via mysqldb's.
> : I would like to add the old entries to the new db that i have setup for
the
> : bloggs.
> : My problem is converting the date format from 12-08-03 to the time stamp
to
> : be stored int the db. It has to be done this way as new entries will be
> : using the time stamp
> :
> : So in the php file i have
> : $dateAdded = time();
> : but time would then be 1064245532
> : i need
> : date=12-08-03
> : $dateAdded = date(convert) to time stamp
>
> $dateAdded = mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 8, 2003);