Change the curdate() (current date) format in MySQL

The current date format is ‘YYYY-mm-dd’. To change current date format, you can use date_format().

Let us first display the current date −

mysql> select curdate();

This will produce the following output −

+------------+ | curdate() | +------------+ | 2019-08-08 | +------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Following is the query to change curdate() (current date) format −

mysql> select date_format(curdate(), '%m/%d/%Y');

This will produce the following output −

+------------------------------------+ | date_format(curdate(), '%m/%d/%Y') | +------------------------------------+ | 08/08/2019                         | +------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable ( ArrivalDate date ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.50 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable values('2019-01-10'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.18 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable values('2016-12-18'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.12 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select *from DemoTable;

This will produce the following output −

+-------------+ | ArrivalDate | +-------------+ | 2019-01-10 | | 2016-12-18 | +-------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Following is the query to change date format −

mysql> select date_format(ArrivalDate, '%m/%d/%Y') from DemoTable;

This will produce the following output −

+--------------------------------------+ | date_format(ArrivalDate, '%m/%d/%Y') | +--------------------------------------+ | 01/10/2019                           | | 12/18/2016                           | +--------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)