December 2002
Beginner
640 pages
16h 41m
English
MySQL gives you a range of date and time related functions. In essence, the types of functions boil down to
Get current date and time
Format dates or times
Extract information (for example, name of a month of a given date)
Add and subtract date and time
Compare dates and times
It's worth noting that your data doesn't have to be in a MySQL table for you to use date functions! For example, if your programming language doesn't have some of the powerful functions that MySQL has—the capability to add and subtract dates, say—you can perform the query through MySQL just by using a SELECT statement on the data directly.
When passing a date or time to MySQL, it should be formatted slightly differently, depending on whether you are ...