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DATE_FORMAT(date
,format
)
Formatsdate
Value according toformat
String.
The following specifiers may be used informat
String. 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 |
AM OrPM |
%r |
Time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss FollowedAM OrPM ) |
%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%X
Format specifiers are available as of MySQL 3.23.8.%f
Is 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_names
System 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_connection
Andcollation_connection
So 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'