converting now() ?

[Robbie]

Let's say I have an simple SQL query:

INSERT INTO news (id,subject,date_time) VALUES ('','$subject',now()); 

the now() function (not sure if it is a function, I found no documentation of it on php.net) is giving me this:

2002-07-05 18:03:28

But I want to convert this date to an european date/time like this:

05-07-2002 18:03:28

How can I convert this? is there a function for this orso?
Or maybe I must insert the date/time like this:

$date_time = date("d-m-Y H:i:s");

into my database?
But if I do it that way, I can't order my SQL query by the time/date en with now() I can ORDER BY date_time.

That's my point, I want to ORDER BY date_time, but on the page itself my visitors must read a ''good'' european time.

Any ideas for this?

Robbie.

[Jeewhizz]

Youa re gonna have to store it like that, but you can format it once you retrieve it. Then you can convert it into a unix timestamp by a mysql query as shown below

UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date)
If called with no argument, returns a Unix timestamp (seconds since '1970-01-01 00:00:00' GMT). If UNIX_TIMESTAMP() is called with a date argument, it returns the value of the argument as seconds since '1970-01-01 00:00:00' GMT. date may be a DATE string, a DATETIME string, a TIMESTAMP, or a number in the format YYMMDD or YYYYMMDD in local time:
mysql> select UNIX_TIMESTAMP();
-> 882226357
mysql> select UNIX_TIMESTAMP('1997-10-04 22:23:00');
-> 875996580

When UNIX_TIMESTAMP is used on a TIMESTAMP column, the function will receive the value directly, with no implicit ``string-to-unix-timestamp'' conversion. If you give UNIX_TIMESTAMP() a wrong or out-of-range date, it will return 0.

Then use the date() function to format the nix timestamp like this

$result = mysql_query("select UNIX_TIMESTAMP('1997-10-04 22:23:00')");
list($timestamp) = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$date_time = date("d-m-Y H:i:s",$timestamp); 

or format it through a query as you select it like below

DATE_FORMAT(date,format)
Formats the date value according to the format string. The following specifiers may be used in the format string: %M Month name (January..December)
%W Weekday name (Sunday..Saturday)
%D Day of the month with English suffix (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
%Y Year, numeric, 4 digits
%y Year, numeric, 2 digits
%X Year for the week where Sunday is the first day of the week, numeric, 4 digits, used with '%V'
%x Year for the week, where Monday is the first day of the week, numeric, 4 digits, used with '%v'
%a Abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
%d Day of the month, numeric (00..31)
%e Day of the month, numeric (0..31)
%m Month, numeric (01..12)
%c Month, numeric (1..12)
%b Abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
%j Day of year (001..366)
%H Hour (00..23)
%k Hour (0..23)
%h Hour (01..12)
%I Hour (01..12)
%l Hour (1..12)
%i Minutes, numeric (00..59)
%r Time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)
%T Time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
%S Seconds (00..59)
%s Seconds (00..59)
%p AM or PM
%w Day of the week (0=Sunday..6=Saturday)
%U Week (0..53), where Sunday is the first day of the week
%u Week (0..53), where Monday is the first day of the week
%V Week (1..53), where Sunday is the first day of the week. Used with '%X'
%v Week (1..53), where Monday is the first day of the week. Used with '%x'
%% A literal `%'.


All other characters are just copied to the result without interpretation:

mysql> select DATE_FORMAT('1997-10-04 22:23:00', '%W %M %Y');
-> 'Saturday October 1997'
mysql> select DATE_FORMAT('1997-10-04 22:23:00', '%H:%i:%s');
-> '22:23:00'
mysql> select DATE_FORMAT('1997-10-04 22:23:00',
'%D %y %a %d %m %b %j');
-> '4th 97 Sat 04 10 Oct 277'
mysql> select DATE_FORMAT('1997-10-04 22:23:00',
'%H %k %I %r %T %S %w');
-> '22 22 10 10:23:00 PM 22:23:00 00 6'
mysql> select DATE_FORMAT('1999-01-01', '%X %V');
-> '1998 52'

Hope this helps

Jee

[Robbie]

U 0wn jee...

thanks alot!

[Jeewhizz]

No Problems mate Hope you had fun making it work

Jee