A common mistake that i always do is to forget the strtotime field
Here is where i usually use it.
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*************************************************** //20221117 if ($pldate != '') { $pldate = date("m/d/Y", strtotime($pldate)); } if ($plcheck_date != '') { $plcheck_date = date("m/d/Y", strtotime($plcheck_date)); } ?> <div id="page-wrapper"> *************************************************** $pltype = $_POST['pltype']; $pltype = htmlspecialchars( $pltype, ENT_QUOTES); //20160904 if ($pldate != '') { $pldate = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($pldate)); } if ($plcheck_date != '') { $plcheck_date = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($plcheck_date)); $plcheck_date2 = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($plcheck_date)); } else { $plcheck_date2 = NULL; } ***************************************************