Oh wise ones,

I'm in need of your wisdom regarding timestamps.
At one point I was performing data collection from logs that contained timestamps as such (Mon Sep 15 08:00:32 2008) and converted them to be inserted into a database.
I used the mktime() function to accomplish this for example:

mktime( $sec, $min, $hour, $mday, ($mon-1), ($year-1900), $wd, $sd, -1 )-315964800;

Now I have a new set of logs that contains timestamps as such (09/10 17:18:46:126). My problem here is that mktime() does not handle miliseconds and I need to be able to convert back to original timestamp when retrieving the data from the database.
Any help would be appreciated.

In reply to Timestamp help by Anonymous Monk

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