date format of the mysql database

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i want to know that if i change the date format or the location of the my system it will affect the date format of MySQL format?

Posted 21-Mar-12 1:41am

niravbhavsar

Updated 21-Mar-12 1:56am

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ZurdoDev 21-Mar-12 7:46am

I have not used MySQL but every other database I have used do not store a format with the date. The date is merely a number in the database. It is then formatted when shown to a user.

niravbhavsar 21-Mar-12 7:57am

ya i know that. it can be easily done. when we get the date from database and display it.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2012-03-21T02:10:00

Generally, you should not use any date format with a database - since you don't know the display format preferred by the user on the display machine, which could be a very, very long way away.

In fact, MySql conversions default to yyyy-MM-dd (just like Sql Server) and it is a much, much better idea not to mess with this - return the date to your application as a Date or DateTime value, and post-process it into the user preferred format there.