MySQL Date_format () function

Definition and usage

The Date_format () function is used to display date/time data in different formats.

Grammar

Date_format (Date,format)

The date parameter is a valid day. format Specifies the date/time in which the output is formatted.

The formats you can use are:

format	Description
%a	Abbreviated Week name
%b	Abbreviated month name
%c	Month, value
%d	Day of the month with English prefixes
%d	Day of the month, value (00-31)
%e	Day of the month, value (0-31)
%f	Microseconds
%H	Hours (00-23)
%h	Hours (01-12)
%I	Hours (01-12)
%i	Minutes, value (00-59)
%j	Days of the Year (001-366)
%k	Hours (0-23)
%l	Hours (1-12)
%M	Month Name
%m	month, value (00-12)
%p	AM or PM
%r	Time, 12-hour (Hh:mm:ss AM or PM)
%s	Seconds (00-59)
%s	Seconds (00-59)
%T	Time, 24-hour (HH:MM:SS)
%u	Week (00-53) Sunday is the first day of the week
%u	Week (00-53) Monday is the first day of the week
%V	Week (01-53) Sunday is the first day of the week, with%x
%v	Week (01-53) Monday is the first day of the week, with%x
%W	Week name
%w	Day of the week (0= Sunday, 6 = Saturday)
%x	year, of which Sunday was the first day of the week, 4-bit, with%V used
%x	year, of which Monday was the first day of the week, 4-bit, with%v used
%Y	Year, 4 guests
%y	Year, 2 guests

Instance

The following script uses the Date_format () function to display different formats. We use now () to get the current date/time:

Date_format (now (), '%b%d%Y%h:%i%p ') Date_format (now (), '%m-%d-%y ') Date_format (now (), '%d%b%Y ') Date_format (now (), '% D%b%Y%t:%f ')

The results are similar:

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MySQL Date_format () function