That's probably something best done in your presentation (app) layer. If you must do this in mysql, then you'll probably want to write a stored function.
-----Original Message----- From: Tompkins Neil [mailto:neil.tompk...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 10:27 AM To: prabhat kumar Cc: [MySQL] Subject: Re: Displaying date/time Hi That is kind of what I'm looking for. However I'd like to be able to display the difference between date 1 and date 2 like 1d 2h 29min ago Thanks Neil On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:32 PM, prabhat kumar <aim.prab...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee, you are notified that reviewing, disseminating, disclosing, copying or distributing this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any loss or damage caused by viruses or errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. [FriendFinder Networks, Inc., 220 Humbolt court, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, USA, FriendFinder.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
