Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] dates

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I haven't done a whole lot of research there.  I normally use the datetime
type but that could be mysql specific.  One would think that timestamp
would be uniform across the board, but I would have to do some testing to
be sure.  I will try to come up with a real answer for you Don :)

Adam

> In my module I want to store dates.  I'm wondering if there is a
> sql-standard date field.  I've seen and used various datatypes like
> date,  datetime, timestamp, etc.  Is there one that is standard across
> databases?
>
> Otherwise I could store month, date, and year as varchar fields and then
>  just use php to create a php date object for manipulation.
>
> Don.
>
>
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