There are times when you need a time stamp to be for a time that isn't right now. You may need to generate a date in the past or the future. You can use the mktime () function to create a timestamp for anytime. This is especially useful if you need to generate a date in the future to count down to. Read More.

Angela, do have any help on or references online to convert MS Excel or Access date field to MySQL. I am not a great coder but was hoping there would be something in PHPMyAdmin within the IMPORT utility. I have to convert all my dates over but more or less I have just been removing the columns.
Thanks
Adam