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Asked: 2026-06-04T15:00:02+00:00

My query is this… SELECT a.ID, a.time, a.quote, a.quantity, a.media, a.print, a.pack FROM quotes

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My query is this…

SELECT a.ID, a.time, a.quote, a.quantity, a.media, a.print, a.pack 
FROM quotes a

It returns my dates like this…

How do I make the results come back as March 2, 2012 or 05/04/2012 or something meaningful?

UPDATE – FROM_UNIXTIME answers below list all records as having time when I run the query – I need the time the records were originally created – NOT the query time.

Any other ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try to use this function: FROM_UNIXTIME

    In your case it will be something like this (for first example): 

    SELECT a.ID, FROM_UNIXTIME(a.`time`, '%M %e, %Y'), 
    a.quote, a.quantity, a.media, a.print, a.pack 
FROM quotes a

    Also what you might want to do is to to give result an alias:

    SELECT a.ID, FROM_UNIXTIME(a.`time`, '%M %e, %Y') as formatted_time, 
    a.quote, a.quantity, a.media, a.print, a.pack 
FROM quotes a

    And then you will be accessing result of formating as formatted_time not time…

    NOTICE: Please observe that time column name is in backticks 

     a.`time`

    Lac of back ticks caused query to return current time instead of value of time column

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