Unfinished Website » admin http://www.unfinishedwebsite.com This website is never finished Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:55:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Excel date_format tostring string.format type function http://www.unfinishedwebsite.com/geek-tips/excel-date_format-tostring-string-format-type-function/ http://www.unfinishedwebsite.com/geek-tips/excel-date_format-tostring-string-format-type-function/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:24:15 +0000 admin http://www.unfinishedwebsite.com/?p=102 So it took me about 10 minutes to figure out that Excel has a date_format, date, date.toString() like function. It’s called text(). To get a date format into something which will import nicely into a postgres or mysql database, simply do somthing like this:
text(A1, "yyyy-mm-dd")

And since all the other languages seem to have a more clear “date format” function, here are the corresponding methods:

  • .Net/C# – String.Format() or DateTime.ToString()
  • php – date()
  • mysql – date_format()
  • postgres – to_char()
  • java – String.Format combined with a java.util.Calendar
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