[thelist] MySQL date format

[Hassan Schroeder]

Symeon Charalabides wrote:

>>Of course this format fails to take into account the last day of the 
>>month or year (giving you e.g. Saturday, 31 - 1 December 2005), so you 
>>would probably need to improve this.  All in all, it's usually better to 
>>use PHP (or whatever) to format your dates for ouput.
> 
> True, this is what I ended up doing. I was wondering if it was possible to bring 
> up such a string (or some variation thereof) with a simple SELECT, as it's faster 
> than digging up the conventional date, then formatting it with PHP. As it turns 
> out this isn't possible as the SELECT needed is so complex that PHP probably does 
> it faster. 

Not necessarily, but you never answered the question -- what do
you expect the output for e.g. '2005-11-30' to look like?

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