SQL Date Formatting

[Bob Sneidar]

I could massage the sql date format in my select statement, but I am trying to keep my select statements as simple as I can, so I have 2 functions that convert to and from the standard sql date format. 

Bob


On Jan 11, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Warren Samples wrote:

> On 01/11/2012 07:20 PM, Bob Sneidar 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
> 
> Is the problem getting them from Livecode to mySQL or what mySQL returns from select?
> 
> Can you set the date format in your select statement?
> 
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format
> 
> Warren
> 
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