Question

I am pulling a date value from a MySQL DB formatted as 01/20/13 I am calling the PHP date function on this value returned to get what day of the week it is, so 01/20/13 is today’s date which is Sunday but it keeps returning the value Wednesday. I have included the code below I am new to programming so this is probably a stupid error I am overlooking.

<?php

        require '../TimeCard/DB.php';

    try{
    $stmt = $conn->prepare('SELECT `date` FROM `timeRecords` WHERE `employeeID`= 1 ');
    $stmt->execute();
    } catch(PDOException $e){
        echo'ERROR: ' . $e->getMessage();
    }

    while($row = $stmt->fetch())
  {
    echo date("l", $row['date']) . "<br>";
    echo $row['date'] . "<br>";
  }

        ?>

Answer 1

Mysql does not store dates as m/d/y it stores them as Y-m-d you’re mysql database will turn “01/20/13” into 0000-00-00.

However, if you are not using the date type, and storing as a string use

strtotime($row['date'])