MySql difference between two timestamps in days?

Question

How can I get the difference between two timestamps in days? Should I be using a datetime column for this?

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I switched my column to datetime. Simple subtraction doesn\'t

Answer 1

I know is quite old, but I'll say just for the sake of it - I was looking for the same problem and got here, but I needed the difference in days.

I used SELECT (UNIX_TIMESTAMP(DATE1) - UNIX_TIMESTAMP(DATE2))/60/60/24 Unix_timestamp returns the difference in seconds, and then I just divide into minutes(seconds/60), hours(minutes/60), days(hours/24).