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Henk Denneboom
Henk Denneboom

Reputation: 1583

UNIX Timestamp to MySQL DATETIME

I have a table with statistics and a field named time with Unix Timestamps.

There are about 200 rows in the table, but I would like to change the Unix timestamps to MySQL DATETIME without losing the current rows. The current table:

CREATE TABLE `stats` (
    `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
    `time` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `domain` varchar(40) NOT NULL,
    `ip` varchar(20) NOT NULL,
    `user_agent` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
    `domain_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8

So the time (INT) should be a DATETIME field.

How can I update the Unix Timestamp to MySQL's DATETIME?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 28686

Answers (4)

Bad Loser
Bad Loser

Reputation: 3155

Here's a PDO example of how to use FROM_UNIXTIME in a prepared statement:

$query = "INSERT INTO " .$this->table_name.  " SET origTS=FROM_UNIXTIME(:d2)";                
$stmt = $this->conn->prepare($query);
$stmt->bindParam(":d2", $this->origTS);         // UNIX time [ but seconds! ]

Upvotes: 0

Mohamed Ziada
Mohamed Ziada

Reputation: 31

ALTER TABLE `stats`
MODIFY COLUMN `time` timestamp NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' AFTER `id`;
ALTER TABLE `stats`
MODIFY COLUMN `time` datetime NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00' AFTER `id`;

Upvotes: 0

Lepidosteus
Lepidosteus

Reputation: 12027

Remember to test it before using it for real, this is written from memory but should give you a good idea.

ALTER TABLE `stats` CHANGE `time` `unix_time` int(11) NOT NULL // rename the old column
ALTER TABLE `stats` ADD `time` DATETIME NOT NULL // create the datetime column
UPDATE `stats` SET `time`=FROM_UNIXTIME(unix_time) // convert the data
ALTER TABLE `stats` DROP `unix_time` // drop the old unix time column

Upvotes: 31

zvrba
zvrba

Reputation: 24546

  1. use alter table to create a new column (eg. time2) with the datetime type in the same table
  2. update stats set time2=from_unixtime(time);
  3. use alter table to a) delete the time column, and b) rename the time2 to time.

Upvotes: 3

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