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Asked: 2026-05-16T11:12:41+00:00

This is probably something easy to accomplish. I have some dates in my MySQL

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This is probably something easy to accomplish. I have some dates in my MySQL database, (and I am using PHP). Some are stored as such 2010-08-25 11:00:00, while others are stored as 2010-08-25T08:00:00

My question is: I am selecting the dates from the database, and then using ORDER BY start_date

However, I have noticed that when the date string includes a “T”, it is pushing it down in the order. For example, my dates being returned are: 

 2010-08-25 11:00:00
 2010-08-25 14:15:00
 2010-08-25T08:00:00
 2010-08-25T14:30:00
 2010-08-25T15:00:00

As you can see, events at 8am are showing up after events at 2:15pm.

Any ideas on how I can re-arrange it so that the 8am events are moved toward the top?

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could always just get the list of dates into PHP, use string functions to convert the ‘T’ to a space, and then sort the list.

    Definitely not a good solution though. It would be better to fix the data in your database, if possible.

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