Mysql Date Format Dd/Mm/Yyyy Select Query?

Question

I'm a bit confused on how to order by date formats.

For the format YYYY-MM-DD you would do this: ...ORDER BY date DESC...

How would you order by DD/MM/YYYY?

This isn't working:

SELECT * FROM $table ORDER BY DATE_FORMAT(Date, '%Y%m%d') DESC LIMIT 14

Accepted Answer

Guessing you probably just want to format the output date? then this is what you are after

SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT(date,'%d/%m/%Y') AS niceDate 
FROM table 
ORDER BY date DESC 
LIMIT 0,14

Or do you actually want to sort by Day before Month before Year?

Accepted Answer

You can use STR_TO_DATE() to convert your strings to MySQL date values and ORDER BY the result:

ORDER BY STR_TO_DATE(datestring, '%d/%m/%Y')

However, you would be wise to convert the column to the DATE data type instead of using strings.

Answer 3

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(somedate, "%d/%m/%Y") AS formatted_date
..........
ORDER BY formatted_date DESC

Answer 4

Use:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(NAME_COLUMN, "%d/%l/%Y") AS 'NAME'
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(NAME_COLUMN, "%d/%l/%Y %H:%i:%s") AS 'NAME'

Reference:

Answer 5

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(COLUMN_NAME, "%d/%m/%Y %h:%i %p");

OR

SELECT DATE_FORMAT("2019-05-10 19:30:10", "%d/%m/%Y %h:%i %p");

OUTPUT is 10/05/2019 07:30 PM

Answer 6

for my case this worked

str_to_date(date, '%e/%m/%Y' )

Answer 7

If the hour is important, I used str_to_date(date, '%d/%m/%Y %T' ), the %T shows the hour in the format hh:mm:ss.

Answer 8

ORDER BY a date type does not depend on the date format, the date format is only for showing, in the database, they are same data.

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