Question

I have a column that is populated with a date format that is useful for another application but not the mysql format for timestamps. Here is what it looks like:

2010.01.28 12:00 (“time” column) instead of the mysql timestamp: 2010-01-28 12:00:00 (“updatetime” column).

I need to do a date specific search between two time periods and for a normal mysql timestamp I would run this:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE updatetime BETWEEN '$dateStart' and '$dateEnd'

but this doesn’t work with the “time” column formatted as it is. I would prefer to keep that column formatted as such as a different application requires that date format, so does anyone know a MYSQL way to search BETWEEN two timeperiods with the 2010.01.28 12:00 format? Running from a PHP script

Answer 1

You can either format the times in the same format in PHP, or in MySQL

WHERE updatetime BETWEEN
        date_format('$datestart','%Y.%m.%d %H:%s')
    AND date_format('$dateend','%Y.%m.%d %H:%s')