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[SOLVED] Entering month,day and year of birth question


graham23s

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Hi GUys,

 

on my registration form and in mysql i usually have 3 seperate fields:

 

birthyear/birthday/birthmonth

 

when it comes to storing the info into mysql is it best to store all 3 seperately or make it like:

 

0000-00-00

 

in the 1 field?

 

thanks for any advice

 

Graham

If all birthdays were after 1970 I would definitely use a timestamp but since they don't and I've heard about problems with negative timestamps i would go for the yyyy-mm-dd which mysql can "manipulate" with in queries...

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