Question

I’m importing an rss feed into MySQL 5.1 via wget and LOAD DATA INFILE.

This is all working well, but, I’m having problems converting the date & time in the rss feed to a datetime col in mysql.

An example date from the feed is:

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:10:19 GMT

Any ideas how I can cast or convert this?

Thanks

J.

Answer 1

use STR_TO_DATE

SELECT STR_TO_DATE(DATE_STRING,'%a, %d %b %Y %h:%i:%s')

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• STR_TO_DATE
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