Convert Unix timestamp to human readable date in MySQL
Question:
How to convert Unix timestamp to human readable date in MySQL? Answer:
SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(event_time) AS formattedEventTime FROM events;
-- OR --
SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(event_time, '%Y-%m-%d') AS isoDate FROM events;Description:
If you need a human-readable format for a Unix timestamp column in the output of a MySQL query, you can easily do the conversion using the FROM_UNIXTIME() function.
If you want to get a format other than the default, you can pass a format string as an optional second parameter.
Reference:
FROM_UNIXTIME() reference
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Convert Unix timestamp to human readable date in MySQL