Question

A column in one of my tables is DATE and currently it gets automatically filled with a timestamp of when the row was made. The timestamp looks like 2013-02-10 19:56:12. Is there anyway I can have it timestamp with the unix epoch automatically? I hope this makes sense. I’m still a beginner when it comes to mysql.

Answer 1

if you want to project (select) TIMESTAMP into UNIX format, use UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date)

SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date)
FROM tableName

• UNIX_TIMESTAMP() ^{MySQL Docs}

• SQLFiddle Demonstration