SQL Date Formatting

[Mike Bonner]

Can't try it but I believe you can do something like

select field1, field2, DATE_FORMAT(yourdatefield,"%m/%d/%Y" from ....

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> Hi all. I am having F-I-TZ working with dates in mySQL. I WANT to store
> the dates as real dates, but mySQL formats them as yyyy-mm-dd. Livecode
> does no such thing and nothing I know how to do can get Livecode to work
> with dates in this format AS dates.
>
> It's no good for my present purposes to work with other formats. I query
> SQL and then drop the data into a datagrid with no custom formatting, and
> that is just the way it has to be. What I need is to tell Livecode to sue
> SLQ date formatting. I have no real hope, but if someone knows of a way to
> do that, I would appreciate it.
>
> I think what is really needed is a feature request for one more date
> format for the convert command: convert myDate to sqlDate. <sigh>
>
> Bob
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