DATE_FORMAT

date_format

Description

Syntax

VARCHAR DATE_FORMAT (DATETIME DATE, VARCHAR Format)

Convert the date type to a string according to the format type. Convert the date type to a string according to the format type. Currently, it supports a maximum of 128 bytes for the string. If the return value length exceeds 128 bytes, then it returns NULL.

The date parameter is the valid date. Format specifies the date/time output format.

The formats available are:

Format	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

Also support 3 formats:

yyyyMMdd

yyyy-MM-dd

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

example

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                            |
+------------------------------------------------+

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                                       |
+------------------------------------------------+

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                                   |
+------------------------------------------------------------+

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                         |
+------------------------------------------------------------+

mysql> select date_format('1999-01-01 00:00:00', '%X %V'); 
+---------------------------------------------+
| date_format('1999-01-01 00:00:00', '%X %V') |
+---------------------------------------------+
| 1998 52                                     |
+---------------------------------------------+

mysql> select date_format('2006-06-01', '%d');
+------------------------------------------+
| date_format('2006-06-01 00:00:00', '%d') |
+------------------------------------------+
| 01                                       |
+------------------------------------------+

mysql> select date_format('2006-06-01', '%%%d');
+--------------------------------------------+
| date_format('2006-06-01 00:00:00', '%%%d') |
+--------------------------------------------+
| %01                                        |
+--------------------------------------------+

keywords

DATE_FORMAT,DATE,FORMAT