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Asked: 2026-05-12T18:34:35+00:00

I’m parsing a feed that contains a created at entry, formatted like this: Thu,

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I’m parsing a feed that contains a “created at” entry, formatted like this:

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:01:33 +0000

I need to be able to store this in a MySQL table, in a DateTime datatype. Then, I want to select rows WHERE datetime clause equals or in range between dates and/or times.

I have two questions:

  1. Will this string be acceptable as a MySQL DateTime datatype?
  2. If yes, which query should I construct to get results from and between dates or hours?
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  1. Editorial Team

    You could do something along these lines (in your language of choice) to turn your string into an acceptable mysql datetime:

    $inputdate = "Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:01:33 +0000";
$unixdate = strtotime($inputdate); //output: 1255042893
$datetime = date("Y-m-d H:i:s", $unixdate); //output: 2009-10-08 23:01:33

    There are a few ways to find records between two dates, this is my favourite:

    SELECT * FROM table WHERE date >= '2009-07-01 00:00:00' and date <= '2009-10-31 23:59:59'
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