Hi, > I have a problem with a trigger which should conver a unix timestamp to a MySQL date datatype. > The trigger works if the column is varchar, but when the column is date type, it write the date of 1969-31-12.
Instead of "column", I guess you mean "value"? > Any ideas? > > > > DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `visitas`; > CREATE TABLE `visitas` ( > `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, > `date` varchar(25) default NULL, If you want to store a date-value, use a date-datatype, not a character based datatype. > `elapsed` int default NULL, > `src_ip` varchar(15) default NULL, > `result_code` varchar(25) default NULL, > `http_status` TINYINT default NULL, > `bytes` int default NULL, > `request` varchar(50) default NULL, > `authname` varchar(10) default NULL, > `type` varchar(20) default NULL, > PRIMARY KEY (`id`) > ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; > > /*!50003 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE*/; > DELIMITER ;; > /*!50003 SET SESSION SQL_MODE="STRICT_TRANS_TABLES" */;; > /*!50003 CREATE */ /*!50017 [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ /*!50003 TRIGGER `unix2normaltime` BEFORE INSERT ON `visitas` FOR EACH ROW begin > set New.date=date(from_unixtime(New.date)); > end */;; Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - development tool for MySQL, and more! Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com My thoughts: http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/ Database development questions? Check the forum! http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]