Question

I use NOW() function but I get this weird date:

2011-11-06

How do I get the following European date:

ss:mm:hh dd:mm:year (06-11-2011)

In my database I set the field column date as DATE

How do you integrate DATEFORMAT into this query:

   $avatar_Q=mysql_query("
                SELECT user_name,avatar,reputation,comment, DATE_FORMAT(date,'%d/%m/%Y %h:%i') AS rightNow
                FROM comments AS com
                INNER JOIN users AS us ON com.user_id=us.user_id
                WHERE comment_id=$commentID
       ") or die(mysql_error());

The date is is in the column table

Answer 1

MySQL uses the following date format – YYYY-MM-DD – if you want a different format you need to use the DATE_FORMAT function on select

for example :

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(datecolumn,"%d/%m/%Y %h:%i")
FROM atable

To integrate the date_format function into your select statement you need to list the fields individually