Format date in MySQL SELECT as ISO 8601

mysql database date-format iso8601
Adam picture Adam · Feb 17, 2012 · Viewed 67.9k times · Source

I'm trying to grab the date from my database in a standard timestamp and display it as ISO 8601. I'm unable to easily do it in PHP so I'm trying to do it in my SELECT statement. This is what I have, but it displays an error:

SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY id DESC DATE_FORMAT(date,"%Y-%m-%dT%TZ")

What am I doing wrong?

Answer

ypercubeᵀᴹ picture ypercubeᵀᴹ · Feb 17, 2012

The DATE_FORMAT(DateColumn) has to be in the SELECT list:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(date, '%Y-%m-%dT%TZ') AS date_formatted
FROM table_name 
ORDER BY id DESC

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