Comments on: Get MySQL date in RFC-822 format for RSS feeds

By: James

James — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:03:00 +0000

Just wanted to mention that you can simply include the timezone offset in the format string, assuming it is relatively static. So for example:

DATE_FORMAT(date, ‘%a, %d %b %Y %T -0600′)

The -0600 portion does not contain any special or escaped characters, so it just displays as written. Depending on your application environment, there are a number of ways to dynamically produce this format string prior to building the select statement.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:44:00 +0000

How do you take a column that has dates stored as RFC-822 and pull it out as YYYYMMDD or of the like? That so far seems impossible.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:21:00 +0000

Thanks, i’ve searched for that all day long!

By: Marcello Orizi

Marcello Orizi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:07:00 +0000

Hi all,
to add the correct timezone formatted in RFC-822 format in Java I found this method. I don’t like it too much because it requires to call cal.getTime() everytime but it seems to do what needed.

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class foo{
public static final String DATE_FORMAT_RFC822_TIMEZONE = “Z”;

public String getRFC822TimeZone() {
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT_RFC822_TIMEZONE);
return sdf.format(cal.getTime());
}

}

By: Jannick Bolten

Jannick Bolten — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:33:00 +0000

Thank you! I’m using it :-)

By: Damian

Damian — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:40:00 +0000

Found this very helpful. The only one thing I would say is that if you try and use ORDERBY rfcpubate DESC in the MYSQL query something weird happens and it doesn’t select the most recent. To fix i did this:

SELECT pubdate, DATE_FORMAT(pubdate,’%a, %d %b %Y %T’) AS rfcpubdate FROM tablename ORDERBY pubdate DESC

very helpful indeed though