It's (sort of) obvious what Cindy is looking for...

In slightly clearer terms, is it possible to format a selected date using
a
format string similar to that available in C's strftime() function -
where %M might stand for month name, %d might stand for day number,
etc.

regards,

P


On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Pavel Kveton wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 January 2001 00:20 Cindy wrote:
> > OK.  I went to the documentation at www.mysql.com and typed in
> > DATE_FORMAT in the search box, hopefully find a list of the %M's, etc
> > rules that may be used (I'd like December to become Dec, etc).  No
> > dice.  Randomly looking through sections that came up under "DATE"
> > search didn't yield any other info on DATE_FORMAT.  20 minutes later,
> > I surrender.  Where would I find out the info on DATE_FORMAT I'm
> > looking for?
> 
> PLEASE, specify what do you want to do? Search the tables in database, import 
> data or what? "DATE" structures in mysql tables use just numeral format, as 
> far as I know...
> 
> Pavel
> 
> >
> > --Cindy
> 
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