Question

I have a simple table like this:

CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `created` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  `username` varchar(16) DEFAULT NULL,
  `password` varchar(16) DEFAULT NULL
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

Whenever I insert a record, the created field should be automatically filled with the current timestamp. However, for some reason I keep seeing the inserted timestamp in a 12 hour format. When I do something like select created from users limit 1; I would get 2012-04-30 11:34:05

When I do something like select current_timestamp I would get the 24 hour format 2012-04-30 23:34:05

When I cast it to unix_time and ask php to convert it to PST time, it’s correct. But I would like to have the column be displayed in 24 hour format without any time manipulation. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

As Mitch said in the comment above, it seems like just a matter of formatting the output on your SELECT. Try DATE_FORMAT:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(created, '%Y-%c-%e %H:%i:%s') FROM users