Re: Date format

If you are using PHP, then as Michael mentioned, you can either use the
Postgres to_char function to return the date formatted in the SQL query, or
use the PHP date() function to format it. Eg:

SQL:
to_char('01-07-2005', Day, DD Month YYYY') AS "Date"
Returns:
Friday , 01 July 2005

PHP:
date('L, d F Y', mktime(0, 0, 0, 07, 01, 2005))
Returns:
Friday, 01 July 2005

Note the extra spaces in the SQL version. They are padded out to the maximum
possible length of that string - ie, Friday is padded out to the number of
characters in 'Wednesday' - That's my understanding anyway; Someone care to
correct me?

Cheers,
-p

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Dylan
Fogarty-MacDonald
Sent: Monday, 31 July 2006 15:23
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [NOVICE] Date format

Hi,

I have two fields of column type 'date' from which I want to output a
formatted date (with PHP).

I understand that MySQL would use DATE_FORMAT and appropriate %M, %D
commands.
I am having trouble finding the equivalent PostgresQL commands. I am
using PG 7.3.4.

I have found the template patterns for the conversions. I want it to be
in this format:

Day, DD Month YYYY

I do not know the function to format this so.

if to_date() converts a string to date, what converts/formats date to
string?

Thankyou very much.

-Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald
dylan(dot)fm(at)gmail(dot)com

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