using excel dates for importing into phpmyadmin sql

Question

I have a table in excel (CSV) which I am importing into phpmyadmin.

the cells show the date fine such as: 09/11/2012 0:00 The cell format is \"custom\"

when

Answer 1

Format your excel dates into the format php accepts. E.g. yyyy-mm-dd h:mm:ss

In excel use the following steps:

• Right click the column heading that contains the dates.

  • Select Format Cells

  • Click the "Custom" category

  • Paste "yyyy-mm-dd h:mm:ss" in the input box.

*. Save the document.

In php SQL query, make sure to set this column to date in anycase if php side is going to treat the date as a string.

You may use : ‘STR_TO_DATE(@date, '%Y-%c-%e %H:%i:%S')‘

Answer 2

I had this problem and thought I formatted them to format YYYY-MM-DD. They were displayed that way, but in the Formula bar it was still in DD/MM/YYYY format. So I actively changed the date with:

=YEAR(A1)&"-"&IF(MONTH(A1)<10;"0";"")&MONTH(A1)&"-"&IF(DAY(A1)<10;"0";"")&DAY(A1)

And then copied the values of these cells to replace the original ones...