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For example the date “2010-01-28 12:47 PM” is stored as “1264740458”. If I wanted to take a date and format it that way with PHP by hand how would I do it?

You can apply date format before handed to PHP.

i need the reverse, i.e. how is the number that EE stores created?

That’s a unix timestamp (time since epoch)

To get that value of the current time in php you can just use

<?php

// set your timezone if it isn't already set
date_default_timezone_set('EST');
// display unix timestamp
echo date('U');

?>

That’s a unix timestamp (time since epoch)

To get that value of the current time in php you can just use

<?php

// set your timezone if it isn't already set
date_default_timezone_set('EST');
// display unix timestamp
echo date('U');

?>

thanks that’s exactly what I needed.

Awesome. Glad to help Ryan 😊