What's the recommended way to store current time using PHP and MySQL?

Question

My initial approach was:

$current = time(); // save this to column CURRENT_TIME with column type VARCHAR

//retrieve it like this
$retrieved = mysql_query(..         


        

Answer 1

Storing it as int is more logical. You save the row format of date, using which you can later extract other format and more data .. I also save it as int.

Edit: For(Uni-TimeZone) application int is the fastest way and PHP has great time conversion tools.