Format date in MySQL SELECT as ISO 8601

Question

I\'m trying to grab the date from my database in a standard timestamp and display it as ISO 8601. I\'m unable to easily do it in PHP so I\'m trying to do it in my SELECT st

Answer 1

Loading the date field from the database and converting it to ISO format with PHP is straight-forward; see the c format string to PHP date: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

echo date('c'); // expected "2013-03-08T14:45:37+05:00"