what's the error? is this from another thread? why didn't you post as followup in that thread instead of starting new thread?

post your code that is giving this error

problem is not with the date function.

you are comparing the string "h" to the string "12"
"h" < "12" is always going to return false

you need to compare your variable h to the number 12

h...

i would run some tests on your email server and see. however I would have to guess that one message with lots of recipients would be much better