I've been looking though "MySQL" by Paul DuBois (second edition) and the MySQL docs at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Date_and_time_functions.html (and others).
I'm looking for a MySQL function that returns the unix time (second since epoch), and there doesn't seem to be one.
UNIX_TIMESTAMP()
Using a PHP script, what's the best way to store the current time (for example, when a message board post is made) so it can be easily read back and formatted later? I need to be able to use either MySQL's fucntions or the PHP date functions to format the date like "Tuesday, Feb 17, 2004 9:18:30pm".
Store as datetime, use current_datetime() to get the current time to store, date_add() and date_sub() for arithmetic, and date_format() to retrieve.
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