On 2 Dec 2003 at 7:57, Ron McKeever wrote: > I have a db that gets data dumped into it. One of the columns gets > unix timestamp data "utime". I what to covert that into a datetime > column so I can utlize indexes and such. But I still what the unixtime > to remain.
You can use indexes with a Unix time column about as well as you can with DATETIME. What sort of queries are you wanting to do? Having the extra column may be unnecessary. > I believe I have a good way to do this but I'm not sure why it's not > converting the date right ( see at bottom ): It seems to be converting the date right. FROM_UNIXTIME() does the opposite of UNIX_TIMESTAMP(). It takes an integer representing a Unix time and converts it to a DATETIME in local time (not GMT). It would be nice if there were a FROM_UNIXTIME_TO_GMT() function, but there isn't. -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tobacco Documents Online http://tobaccodocuments.org -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
