{"id":31,"date":"2021-01-12T08:54:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T08:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/?p=31"},"modified":"2021-01-12T08:54:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T08:54:42","slug":"producing-mysql-dates-on-the-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/producing-mysql-dates-on-the-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Producing MySQL dates on the command line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I often find myself in need of inserting data manually into a MySQL database using some kind of database editor. In a database editor you find yourself manually inserting values into cells of a table and in most of them you are not allowed to enter an SQL expression (the MySQL Query Browser is a prime example). In this case I need some way to generate the current date and time as per the MySQL format quickly on the command line. I will usually use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>alias date_mysql=\"date +'%F %T'\"<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often find myself in need of inserting data manually into a MySQL database using some kind of database editor. In a database editor you find yourself manually inserting values into cells of a table and in most of them you are not allowed to enter an SQL expression (the MySQL Query Browser is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/producing-mysql-dates-on-the-command-line\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Producing MySQL dates on the command line&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[19,23,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veltzer.net:8890\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}