Set a specific Date Format in MySQL?

To set a pecific date format, you need to use DATE_FORMAT() in MySQL. Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable ( Id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, ArrivalDate date ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.60 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable(ArrivalDate) values('2019-01-31'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.15 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable(ArrivalDate) values('2019-04-26'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.12 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable(ArrivalDate) values('2019-03-01'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.13 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select *from DemoTable;

This will produce the following output −

+----+-------------+ | Id | ArrivalDate | +----+-------------+ | 1 | 2019-01-31 | | 2 | 2019-04-26 | | 3 | 2019-03-01 | +----+-------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Following is the query to set specific date format in MySQL −

mysql> select Id,DATE_FORMAT(ArrivalDate, '%d-%M-%Y') from DemoTable;

This will produce the following output −

+----+--------------------------------------+ | Id | DATE_FORMAT(ArrivalDate, '%d-%M-%Y') | +----+--------------------------------------+ | 1 | 31-January-2019 | | 2 | 26-April-2019 | | 3 | 01-March-2019 | +----+--------------------------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.06 sec)