Mysql date and Time DATE_FORMAT (date, format)

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DATE_FORMAT(date,format)

FormatsdateValue according toformatString.

The following specifiers may be used informatString. As of MySQL 3.23, the"%"Character is required before format specifier characters. In earlier versions of MySQL,"%"Was optional.

Specifier	Description
%a	Abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
%b	Abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
%c	Month, numeric (0..12)
%D	Day of the month with English suffix (0th,1st,2nd,3rd,...)
%d	Day of the month, numeric (00..31)
%e	Day of the month, numeric (0..31)
%f	Microseconds (000000..999999)
%H	Hour (00..23)
%h	Hour (01..12)
%I	Hour (01..12)
%i	Minutes, numeric (00..59)
%j	Day of year (001..366)
%k	Hour (0..23)
%l	Hour (1..12)
%M	Month name (January..December)
%m	Month, numeric (00..12)
%p	AMOrPM
%r	Time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ssFollowedAMOrPM)
%S	Seconds (00..59)
%s	Seconds (00..59)
%T	Time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
%U	Week (00..53), Where Sunday is the first day of the week
%u	Week (00..53), Where Monday is the first day of the week
%V	Week (01..53), Where Sunday is the first day of the week; used%X
%v	Week (01..53), Where Monday is the first day of the week; used%x
%W	Weekday name (Sunday..Saturday)
%w	Day of the week (0= Sunday ..6= Saturday)
%X	Year for the week where Sunday is the first day of the week, numeric, four digits; used%V
%x	Year for the week, where Monday is the first day of the week, numeric, four digits; used%v
%Y	Year, numeric, four digits
%y	Year, numeric (two digits)
%%	A literal"%"Character
%x	x, For any"x"Not listed above

The%v,%V,%x, And%XFormat specifiers are available as of MySQL 3.23.8.%fIs available as of MySQL 4.1.1.

Ranges for the month and day specifiers begin with zero due to the fact that MySQL permits the storing of incomplete dates such'2014-00-00'(As of MySQL 3.23 ).

As of MySQL 4.1.21, the language used for day and month names and abbreviations is controlled by the value oflc_time_namesSystem variable (Section 9.8, "MySQL Server Locale Support ").

As of MySQL 4.1.23,DATE_FORMAT()Returns a string with a character set and collation givencharacter_set_connectionAndcollation_connectionSo that it can return month and weekday names containing non-ASCII characters. Before 4.1.23, the return value is a binary string.

mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2009-10-04 22:23:00', '%W %M %Y');    -> 'Sunday October 2009'mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2007-10-04 22:23:00', '%H:%i:%s');    -> '22:23:00'mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT('1900-10-04 22:23:00',  ->  '%D %y %a %d %m %b %j');    -> '4th 00 Thu 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'mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2006-06-00', '%d');    -> '00'