changing format date MySql

Question

i have date type column in MySql. by default MySql date format is YYYY/MM/DD. but actualy i prefer to use DD/MM/YYYY format.

Could i change the column date f

Answer 1

As others have explained that it is not possible, but here's alternative solution, it requires a little tuning, but it works like date column.

I started to think, how I could make formatting possible. I got an idea. What about making trigger for it? I mean, adding column with type char, and then updating that column using a MySQL trigger. And that worked! I made some research related to triggers, and finally come up with these queries:

CREATE TRIGGER timestampper BEFORE INSERT ON table
FOR EACH
ROW SET NEW.timestamp = DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), '%d/%m/%Y');

CREATE TRIGGER timestampper2 BEFORE UPDATE ON table
FOR EACH
ROW SET NEW.timestamp = DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), '%d/%m/%Y');

You can't use TIMESTAMP or DATE as a column type, because these have their own format, and they update automatically.

So, here's your alternative timestamp or date alternative! Hope this helped, at least I'm glad that I got this working.