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Asked: 2026-05-14T08:23:15+00:00

I have a sql to get data form mysql their I used dateformat to

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I have a sql to get data form mysql their I used dateformat to convert date required format
Here is the sql

SELECT 
 m.id,
 m.subject,
 m.body,
 m.read,
 m.hide,
 m.thread_id,
 DATE_FORMAT(m.sent_date, '%d-%b-%Y') sent_date,
 u.username to_name
 FROM 
 messages m,
 users u
 WHERE 
 u.school_id = m.school_id AND
 u.id = m.to_user_id AND
 m.school_id = 18 AND
 m.user_id = 53 AND
 m.status = 'sent'
 ORDER BY m.sent_date DESC

When I run this sql directly in mysql it works fine, sent_date comes as (19-Apr-2010). When I excute this in ruby, in result set the sent_date is stores as (Tue Apr 20 00:00:00 UTC 2010)

messages = Message.find_by_sql(sql)
puts messages[0]['sent_date']

puts statement prints “Tue Apr 20 00:00:00 UTC 2010”

how to get same date format in mysql result and ruby result set.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You Froget to use “AS” in your query so it is taking default datatype set in your database.

    Following should work. Cheer’s

    DATE_FORMAT(m.sent_date, '%d-%b-%Y') AS sent_date

    EDITED for “AS keyword is optional”

    I check in my own code & i came to following conclusion

    when i write something like follwing
    1] column name is same and w/o “AS”

       @check = DATE_FORMAT(m.sent_date, '%d-%b-%Y') sent_date
   @check[0].sent_date >>  Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 UTC +00:00

    2] column name is same and with “AS”

       @check = DATE_FORMAT(m.sent_date, '%d-%b-%Y') AS sent_date
   @check[0].sent_date >>  22-Mar-2010

    3] column name is different and w/0 “AS”

       @check = DATE_FORMAT(m.sent_date, '%d-%b-%Y') date
   @check[0].date >>  22-Mar-2010
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