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[SOLVED] Pulling records by date in MySQL
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:16 pm
by voltrader
My date field is of the form:
'Day' 'Date' 'of' 'Month' 'Year' HH:MM:SS PM
i.e.
Thursday 23rd of September 2004 08:49:03 PM
I'd like to retrieve the last 10 records ordered by date/time. I could retrieve the whole lot and use strtotime with PHP, but that would seem much less efficient than giving MySQL the format parameters in a SELECT.
I looked at the manual, but the examples were not that specific.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:21 pm
by feyd
how were they not specific?
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DATE_FORMAT(date,format)
Formats the date value according to the format string. The following specifiers may be used in the format string:
Specifier Description
%a Abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
%b Abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
%c Month, numeric (0..12)
%D Day of the month with English suffix (0th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...)
%d Day of the month, numeric (00..31)
%e Day of the month, numeric (0..31)
%f Microseconds (000000..999999)
%H Hour (00..23)
%h Hour (01..12)
%I Hour (01..12)
%i Minutes, numeric (00..59)
%j Day of year (001..366)
%k Hour (0..23)
%l Hour (1..12)
%M Month name (January..December)
%m Month, numeric (00..12)
%p AM or PM
%r Time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss followed by AM or PM)
%S Seconds (00..59)
%s Seconds (00..59)
%T Time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
%U Week (00..53), where Sunday is the first day of the week
%u Week (00..53), where Monday is the first day of the week
%V Week (01..53), where Sunday is the first day of the week; used with %X
%v Week (01..53), where Monday is the first day of the week; used with %x
%W Weekday name (Sunday..Saturday)
%w Day of the week (0=Sunday..6=Saturday)
%X Year for the week where Sunday is the first day of the week, numeric, four digits; used with %V
%x Year for the week, where Monday is the first day of the week, numeric, four digits; used with %v
%Y Year, numeric, four digits
%y Year, numeric, two digits
%% A literal '%'.
All other characters are copied to the result without interpretation.