SQL
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
jQuery
PHP
WordPress

or View All Tags

SQL Reference

Quick Reference

The MySQL DATE_FORMAT() function formats a date as specified.

				
					SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2023-04-15', '%Y');

Output

				
					DATE_FORMAT('2023-04-15', '%Y')
2023

Syntax

				
					DATE_FORMAT(date, format)

Parameter

ParameterDescription
dateThe date to be modified (required)
formatThe format to use (required):

  • %a = Abbreviated weekday name (Sun to Sat)

  • %b = Abbreviated month name (Jan to Dec)

  • %c = Numeric month name (0 to 12)

  • %D = Day of the month as a numeric value, followed by suffix (1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...)

  • %d = Day of the month as a numeric value (01 to 31)

  • %e = Day of the month as a numeric value (0 to 31)

  • %f = Microseconds (000000 to 999999)

  • %H = Hour (00 to 23)

  • %h = Hour (00 to 12)

  • %I = Hour (00 to 12)

  • %i = Minutes (00 to 59)

  • %j = Day of the year (001 to 366)

  • %k = Hour (0 to 23)

  • %l = Hour (1 to 12)

  • %M = Month name in full (January to December)

  • %m = Month name as a numeric value (00 to 12)

  • %p = AM or PM

  • %r = Time in 12 hour AM or PM format (hh:mm:ss AM/PM)

  • %S = Seconds (00 to 59)

  • %s = Seconds (00 to 59)

  • %T = Time in 24 hour format (hh:mm:ss)

  • %U = Week where Sunday is the first day of the week (00 to 53)

  • %u = Week where Monday is the first day of the week (00 to 53)

  • %V = Week where Sunday is the first day of the week (01 to 53). Used with %X

  • %v = Week where Monday is the first day of the week (01 to 53). Used with %x

  • %W = Weekday name in full (Sunday to Saturday)

  • %w = Day of the week where Sunday=0 and Saturday=6

  • %X = Year for the week where Sunday is the first day of the week. Used with %V

  • %x = Year for the week where Monday is the first day of the week. Used with %v

  • %Y = Year as a numeric, 4-digit value

  • %y = Year as a numeric, 2-digit value

We’d like to acknowledge that we learned a great deal of our coding from W3Schools and TutorialsPoint, borrowing heavily from their teaching process and excellent code examples. We highly recommend both sites to deepen your experience, and further your coding journey. We’re just hitting the basics here at 1SMARTchicken.

SQL
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
jQuery
PHP
WordPress

Why 1SMARTchicken?

This site was built and is maintained to benefit my autistic son.
See More →

My Son's Name is Johnny

He was diagnosed as autistic quite late, at age four...
His story

Buy Me a Coffee

Thanks for your support!

SQL Books

All are affiliate links. Thank you for your support!

SQL NOTES:

  • Any work being done to modify the structure of a database or delete tables or the the database itself should only be done after making a recent backup

Feedback

If you see an error on the page or the code itself is incorrect or incomplete, or just plain wrong, please let us know. We’re always learning. NOTE: we do not sell your information and will not send you spam emails.

1SMARTchicken Icon
1SMARTchicken - Code Made Easy