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In MySQL, how can we display the date in other format specified by the user?
We need to use DATE_FORMAT() function to display the date in other formats. There would be two arguments of this function, first would be the date and second would be the format string.
Example − Suppose in the table ‘date_testing we have three dates in the following format
mysql> Select * from date_testing; +------------+ | Date | +------------+ | 2017-03-15 | | 2017-03-25 | | 2017-04-05 | +------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Now DATE_FORMAT() function will change the format of the above dates in the format given by the user as follows −
mysql> Select DATE_FORMAT(Date, '%W %D %M %Y')AS 'FORMATTED DATE' from date_testing; +---------------------------+ | FORMATTED DATE | +---------------------------+ | Wednesday 15th March 2017 | | Saturday 25th March 2017 | | Wednesday 5th April 2017 | +---------------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Here in the above example %W, %D, etc. are date format characters.
Updated on: 20-Jun-2020
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