How to load date data in MySQL when using LOAD DATA

Question

The default date format of a date column is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS in MySQL.

The data file that I am trying load from has a date field that has the date in

Answer 1

Your format string for STR_TO_DATE() is invalid. Hours in your sample data have 24-hour format (%H or %k) instead of 12-hour (%h). You can see all possible date format specifiers here.

Change

%d-%b-%y %h:%i:%s

to

%d-%b-%y %H:%i:%s
         ^^

Your statement might look like this

LOAD DATA INFILE '/path/to/temp_test.csv'
IGNORE INTO TABLE temp_test
  FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
  LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' -- or '\n'
  IGNORE 1 LINES
(@c1, c2)
SET c1 = STR_TO_DATE(@c1,'%d-%b-%y %H:%i:%s');

After loading with your sample data

mysql> select * from temp_test;
+---------------------+------+
| c1                  | c2   |
+---------------------+------+
| 2012-06-07 22:50:19 | abc  |
| 2013-06-07 22:50:19 | bcd  |
+---------------------+------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)