Question

My database uses a TIMESTAMP column for each article which gets data written to it whenever an article is written to the database. This is done automatically by the database using CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as the default value for the column.

Unfortunately, the date appears as 2011-11-24 19:26:57 which is not ideal for – well – anything.

What I’d like to do is write it to my page in the same format as Thu 24 Nov 2011 19:26:57.

Any advice?

Answer 1

You could use MySql builtin function to format date-time column

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(your_col, '%a %d %b %Y %k:%i:%s')
FROM your_table