"David Carlos Brunstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Egor. > > Thanks for your answer. I'm relatively new to MySQL. > > Isn't any way -like an environment variable or configuration file > setting or something like that- to change the date format at the MySQL > side, not at client side ? >
No. You can change format only with DATE_FORMAT() function for the DATE and TIME column types. > -----Original Message----- > From: Egor Egorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Change the date format. > > > "David Carlos Brunstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> By these days I'm facing a system DB migration to MySQL (the last >> production version) and I have the followin problem. All the SELECTs >> sentences are all over the application, and for date/datetime filters >> are using the dd/mm/yyyy format in the WHERE clause. Is the same in >> the INSERT/UPDATE statementes. >> >> I've studied with MySQL documentation, that use the yyyy-mm-dd format >> for the internal storage and for the data interchange with the >> clients. >> >> So the questions are: Is there any way to set the date/datetime format > >> to MySQL engine, so the client can see it as dd/mm/yyyy? Is there any >> solution with no change to the client application code? > > Use DATE_FORMAT() function to retrieve dates in the specific format: > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Date_and_time_functions.html > > But in this case you should rewrite your queries. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
