Question

I’m trying to SELECT rows from a MySQL table and order them by date and time:

mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `user` ORDER BY post_date DESC");

The post_date is formatted as such: 2012-07-18 01:52:57am (o-m-d h:i:sa). I figured that this was the proper simple date format, however it isn’t sorting accurately.

Ex Output:

1.) 2012-07-18 12:41:07am

2.) 2012-07-18 12:26:03am

3.) 2012-07-18 01:52:57am

As you can see the most recent post at 1:52 is at the bottom when it should be at the top. What the heck am I doing wrong and what is the correct date and time format?

Answer 1

I think it is treating 12>1 ..better use 24 hrs format without am/pm