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In MySQL, the standard format for datetime is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
1. This represents a combination of date and time values, where YYYY
stands for the four-digit year, MM
signifies two-digit month, DD
refers to two-digit day, HH
points to hours ranging from 00 to 23, MM
indicates minutes and SS
, seconds2.
When you query data from a DATETIME column, MySQL displays the DATETIME value in this format3. When you insert a value into a DATETIME column, you use the same format3.
Here’s an example of how you can insert a datetime into a MySQL database:
INSERT INTO table_name (datetime_column)
VALUES ('2024-04-19 09:10:47');
In this example, replace table_name
with the name of your table and datetime_column
with the name of your datetime column.
If you want to format the date in a specific way, you can use the DATE_FORMAT()
function in MySQL4. Here’s an example:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(datetime_column, '%W %M %e %Y') FROM table_name;
In this example, %W
gives the weekday name in full (Sunday to Saturday), %M
gives the month name in full (January to December), %e
gives the day of the month as a numeric value (0 to 31), and %Y
gives the year as a numeric, 4-digit value4.
Remember to replace datetime_column
and table_name
with your actual column and table names.
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