DATE_FORMAT Function – MySQL

The DATE_FORMAT function assists in formatting the specified/provided date. Depending on the report criteria and geolocation, we may be required to return the date in a variety of formats such as “DD/MM/YYYY” or “YYYY/MM/DD”, etc.

Using the DATE_FORMAT function you can format the date any way you like using specifiers described in the table below.

Specifier	Description
%a	Abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
%b	Abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
%c	Month, numeric (0..12)
%D	Day of the month with English suffix (0th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, …)
%d	Day of the month, numeric (00..31)
%e	Day of the month, numeric (0..31)
%f	Microseconds (000000..999999)
%H	Hour (00..23)
%h	Hour (01..12)
%I	Hour (01..12)
%i	Minutes, numeric (00..59)
%j	Day of year (001..366)
%k	Hour (0..23)
%l	Hour (1..12)
%M	Month name (January..December)
%m	Month, numeric (00..12)
%p	AM or PM
%r	Time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss followed by AM or PM)
%S	Seconds (00..59)
%s	Seconds (00..59)
%T	Time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
%U	Week (00..53), where Sunday is the first day of the week; WEEK() mode 0
%u	Week (00..53), where Monday is the first day of the week; WEEK() mode 1
%V	Week (01..53), where Sunday is the first day of the week; WEEK() mode 2; used with %X
%v	Week (01..53), where Monday is the first day of the week; WEEK() mode 3; used with %x
%W	Weekday name (Sunday..Saturday)
%w	Day of the week (0=Sunday..6=Saturday)
%X	Year for the week where Sunday is the first day of the week, numeric, four digits; used with %V
%x	Year for the week, where Monday is the first day of the week, numeric, four digits; used with %v
%Y	Year, numeric, four digits
%y	Year, numeric (two digits)
%%	A literal % character
%x	x, for any “x” not listed above

Examples:
SELECT DATE_FORMAT(‘2022-03-14’, ‘%b-%Y’)
UNION SELECT DATE_FORMAT(‘2022-03-14’, ‘%b-%y’)
UNION SELECT DATE_FORMAT(‘2022-03-14’, ‘%b-%Y’)
UNION SELECT DATE_FORMAT(‘2022-03-14’, ‘%b%y’)
UNION SELECT DATE_FORMAT(‘2022-03-14’, ‘%Y%c’)
UNION SELECT DATE_FORMAT(‘2022-03-14’, ‘%Y%m’)
UNION SELECT DATE_FORMAT(NOW(),’%a, %M %d, %Y’)
UNION SELECT DATE_FORMAT(NOW(),’%W, %M %d, %Y’);

Result:
MySQL_DateFormat