Might be this will help you: there is a table called message with 3 colums - id, pubdate and message; You can get all messages from the last 5 minutes with the following example;
SELECT TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE, pubdate, now()), id, message from message where (TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE, pubdate, now()) < 5); Thanks, On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Tompkins Neil <neil.tompk...@googlemail.com>wrote: > Hi > > I have a number of rows which have Date and Time data in. I want to > display > in the following formats based on the systems current time > > e.g under 1 hour 24min ago > e.g under 1 day 16h 29min ago > e.g over 1 day 1d 2h 29min ago > e.g over 1 week 1w 4d 2h 29min ago > > How would this best be achieve using MySQL. > > Thanks, > Neil > -- Best Regards, Prabhat Kumar MySQL DBA Datavail-India Mumbai Mobile : 91-9987681929 www.datavail.com My Blog: http://adminlinux.blogspot.com My LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/profileprabhat
