interpreting the date

[The Keeper]

If you pull a date value from the vB database, how do you convert it into day and time text for display?

[Admin]

Use the date() function, like this:
$formattedDate = date("FORMAT", $row['dateline']);
Or, if you are inside vBulletin just use vbdate() instead of date(), so the time will match the user's timezone.