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Timestamp datatype in MYSQL DB


natasha_sharma

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Friends,

 

I asked my freelancer to convert the date in my raw data (Bulletin Date : 18/09/2015) to be as 18-sep-2015

 

But later i found out that the application which will read this DB (using ODBC) requires date to be a TIMESTAMP format.

$text = file_get_contents($name);
$date = getbetween($text, "Bulletin Date : ", "\n");
$date = substr($date, 0, 11);
$date = explode("/", $date);
$date = $date[0] . "-" . $date[1] . "-" . $date[2];
$date = date_create($date);
$date = date_format($date, "d-M-Y");

Now, I do not have the freelancer working anymore and I am so Stuck.

 

I have now two questions:

 

1) What changes to be done in above code so the date becomes in TIMESTAMP format?

 

2) Also, what datatype should i setup for DATE field using PHPMYADMIN?

 

Please any help?

 

Thanks

Natasha

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1) why yyyy-mm-dd? Is it a timestamp format? then where is TIme?

 

Is it really so hard to google for the MySQL manual?

 

Date and time literals

 

 

 

2) Also why DATE datatype in MysqlDB? There is already a TIMESTAMP type datatype in MYSQL is that not the right datatype?

 

You specifically asked for a date type, and that's what DATE is for. Using a timestamp when there's no time doesn't make sense.

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