DATE_FORMAT()
Description
Formats the date value according to the format string. If either argument is NULL, the function returns NULL.
DATE_FORMAT()
returns a string with a character set and collation given by character_set_connection and collation_connection so that it can return month and weekday names containing non-ASCII characters.
Syntax
> DATE_FORMAT(date,format)
Arguments
Arguments | Description |
---|---|
date | Required. The date to be formatted. |
format | Required. The format to use. Can be one or a combination of the following values as the below table: |
Format Specifier
Info
The specifiers shown in the following table may be used in the format string. The %
character is required before format specifier characters. The specifiers apply to other functions as well as UNIX_TIMESTAMP()
.
Specifier | Description |
---|---|
%a | Abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat) |
%b | Abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec) |
%c | Month, numeric (0..12) |
%D | Day of the month with English suffix (0th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, …) |
%d | Day of the month, numeric (00..31) |
%e | Day of the month, numeric (0..31) |
%f | Microseconds (000000..999999) |
%H | Hour (00..23) |
%h | Hour (01..12) |
%I | Hour (01..12) |
%i | Minutes, numeric (00..59) |
%j | Day of year (001..366) |
%k | Hour (0..23) |
%l | Hour (1..12) |
%M | Month name (January..December) |
%m | Month, numeric (00..12) |
%p | AM or PM |
%r | Time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss followed by AM or PM) |
%S | Seconds (00..59) |
%s | Seconds (00..59) |
%T | Time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss) |
%U | Week (00..53), where Sunday is the first day of the week; WEEK() mode 0 |
%u | Week (00..53), where Monday is the first day of the week; WEEK() mode 1 |
%V | Week (01..53), where Sunday is the first day of the week; WEEK() mode 2; used with %X |
%v | Week (01..53), where Monday is the first day of the week; WEEK() mode 3; used with %x |
%W | Weekday name (Sunday..Saturday) |
%w | Day of the week (0=Sunday..6=Saturday) |
%X | Year for the week where Sunday is the first day of the week, numeric, four digits; used with %V |
%x | Year for the week, where Monday is the first day of the week, numeric, four digits; used with %v |
%Y | Year, numeric, four digits |
%y | Year, numeric (two digits) |
%% | A literal % character |
%x | x, for any "x" not listed above |
Examples
mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2009-10-04 22:23:00', '%W %M %Y');
+--------------------------------------------+
| date_format(2009-10-04 22:23:00, %W %M %Y) |
+--------------------------------------------+
| Sunday October 2009 |
+--------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2007-10-04 22:23:00', '%H:%i:%s');
+--------------------------------------------+
| date_format(2007-10-04 22:23:00, %H:%i:%s) |
+--------------------------------------------+
| 22:23:00 |
+--------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.02 sec)
mysql> SELECT Date_format('1900-10-04 22:23:00', '%D %y %a %d %m %b %j');
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| date_format(1900-10-04 22:23:00, %D %y %a %d %m %b %j) |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| 4th 00 Thu 04 10 Oct 277 |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT('1997-10-04 22:23:00', '%H %k %I %r %T %S %w');
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| date_format(1997-10-04 22:23:00, %H %k %I %r %T %S %w) |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| 22 22 10 10:23:00 PM 22:23:00 00 6 |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT('1999-01-01', '%X %V');
+--------------------------------+
| date_format(1999-01-01, %X %V) |
+--------------------------------+
| 1998 52 |
+--------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
CREATE TABLE t2 (f1 DATETIME);
INSERT INTO t2 (f1) VALUES ('2005-01-01');
INSERT INTO t2 (f1) VALUES ('2005-02-01');
mysql> SELECT Date_format(f1, "%m") AS d1,
Date_format(f1, "%m") AS d2
FROM t2
ORDER BY Date_format(f1, "%m");
+------+------+
| d1 | d2 |
+------+------+
| 01 | 01 |
| 02 | 02 |
+------+------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
CREATE TABLE t5 (a int, b date);
INSERT INTO t5
VALUES (1,
'2000-02-05'),
(2,
'2000-10-08'),
(3,
'2005-01-03'),
(4,
'2007-09-01'),
(5,
'2022-01-01');
mysql> SELECT * FROM t5
WHERE b = Date_format('20000205', '%Y-%m-%d');
+------+------------+
| a | b |
+------+------------+
| 1 | 2000-02-05 |
+------+------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT * FROM t5
WHERE b != Date_format('20000205', '%Y-%m-%d');
+------+------------+
| a | b |
+------+------------+
| 2 | 2000-10-08 |
| 3 | 2005-01-03 |
| 4 | 2007-09-01 |
| 5 | 2022-01-01 |
+------+------------+
4 rows in set (0.01 sec)
mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT("2009-01-01",'%W %d %M %Y') as valid_date;
+--------------------------+
| valid_date |
+--------------------------+
| Thursday 01 January 2009 |
+--------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Constraints
The date type supports only yyyy-mm-dd
and yyyymmdd
for now.