[ciapug] I hate dates...

[Chris Hettinger]

I need a reliable function that I can pass a MySQL time stamp like 
(1978-07-03 00:00:00) and have it return to me only the date portion ...

I wrote something that just splits the datestamp, ignores the time 
portion and make a new date with the year, month, and day. I am however 
getting some returning incorrect.

Passed this: 1947-08-30 00:00:00
Got this: 1969-12-31

I know there must be something wrong and I know that 1969 date indicates 
that but I don't know what to do and it's been a really LONG week...

Can anyone do a little hand-holding for a moment :-\

-ch