Question

While I was playing with Air Sqlite, I got some trouble in saving Date in the Database

INSERT INTO tblUserComments (comment_text, comment_cat,comment_date,parent_id) VALUES('"+bubbleText.text+"','"+chosenCat+"',DATETIME('now', 'localtime'),'"+_parentId+"')

store the comment_date in the following format

2455783.2596296296 instead of 2011/08/09 18:13.

How can I save the Date Data as YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM?

Thank you so much.

Answer 1

After reading up on it, your column can’t be set as DATE, since there isn’t such a type in SQLite. To quote the dev manual:

SQLite does not have a storage class set aside for storing dates
and/or times. Instead, the built-in Date And Time Functions of SQLite
are capable of storing dates and times as TEXT, REAL, or INTEGER
values

I would recommend you save the date as an INTEGER of epoc time, then you can do the conversion to whatever either when selecting the rows or within the code. I personally prefer to use the Date class to convert it properly depending on timezone. ie. var date:Date = new Date(epocTime);