title: remove time stamp from string
body: <p>can anyone get me a code for hiding the time stamp from a string.
  I used this code to get the date from the string
  suppose the </p>
  
  <pre><code>$date_string = "02/06/2011 11:00 am - 2:00 pm";
  
  $date = strtotime($date_string);
  $date = date('m/d/y', $date);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the out put I am getting is something like this</p>
  
  <pre><code> 1/1/70
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please suggest a better way that I could implement for this to work
  I want it to show like </p>
  
  <pre><code>02/06/2011
  </code></pre>