hey all need help big time here

im trying to calculate the differences between two times in php

time format

5-4-2005 16:32:39 as in month-day-year


any ideas how i would calculate the difference

http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

Use this to get a Linux timestamp out of it and then calculate the difference between those two. Once you're done you'll have to transform the result back into a string if you want that.