i have made a script to post news on my site. the news is stored in a mysql database along with other details (auther, title etc). i also want to store the date it was posted, but i don't know how.

There is DATETIME field type and date_format() function in MySQL. When you guys will read manual at last?

lol they have to read manuals man hehehe

Check out this link: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/datetime.html