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From: Haig Davis on 27 Jan 2010 17:58 Hi Everyone, I'm sure I'm missing something simple. I'm trying to store dates of birth prior to 1970 in mysql. I've tried mysql's date_format but am hitting a wall. I'm chasing my tail and was hoping for the best practice. Many Thanks Haig
From: Floyd Resler on 27 Jan 2010 18:05 Haig, What kind of problems are you having? I do this by using the date function to convert to the YYYY-MM-DD format for MySQL. I've had no problems with birth dates prior to 1970. Take care, Floyd On Jan 27, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Haig Davis wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm sure I'm missing something simple. I'm trying to store dates of birth > prior to 1970 in mysql. I've tried mysql's date_format but am hitting a > wall. I'm chasing my tail and was hoping for the best practice. > > Many Thanks > > Haig
From: Jonathan Tapicer on 27 Jan 2010 18:38 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Haig Davis <level510(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm sure I'm missing something simple. I'm trying to store dates of birth > prior to 1970 in mysql. I've tried mysql's date_format but am hitting a > wall. I'm chasing my tail and was hoping for the best practice. > > Many Thanks > > Haig > Use the types date or datetime instead of timestamp, read more about it here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/datetime.html
From: Ashley Sheridan on 27 Jan 2010 18:39
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 20:38 -0300, Jonathan Tapicer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Haig Davis <level510(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I'm sure I'm missing something simple. I'm trying to store dates of birth > > prior to 1970 in mysql. I've tried mysql's date_format but am hitting a > > wall. I'm chasing my tail and was hoping for the best practice. > > > > Many Thanks > > > > Haig > > > > Use the types date or datetime instead of timestamp, read more about > it here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/datetime.html > I think you may be hitting PHP's data limitations here, rather than MySQL's. If that is the case, have a look at Pear Date, which allows you to specify dates and times on 32-bit systems that go outside of PHP's normal range. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk |