Re: formating dates

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Ângelo Marcos Rigo <angelo_rigo(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br>
Cc: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: formating dates
Date: 2005-06-14 20:31:28
Message-ID: 20050614203128.GB19923@wolff.to
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 16:44:25 -0300,
Ângelo Marcos Rigo <angelo_rigo(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br> wrote:
> Hi can i format dates from postgresql stored in the
> aaa-mm-dd format to June 14 2005 - Tuesday ?
>
> using just postgresql functions?

You can use the to_char function. See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-formatting.html

Note that dates aren't actually stored as aaa-mm-dd internally.
You might want something like:
area=> select to_char(current_date, 'Month DD YYYY Day');
to_char
-----------------------------
June 14 2005 Tuesday
(1 row)

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