From: Dan Nelson
Date: February 24 2003 10:46pm
Subject: Re: mysql or pathon date question
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In the last episode (Feb 24), Vivian Wang said:
> mysql,
> The question is:
> 
> If I use unix date Command like: date -date=20030220 +%j
> I will get 051 which is Julian date.
> 
> I like to know how I can get Julian date if I use mysql or Python.

Mysql's date_format function supports the same escapes the date command
does, for the most part:

mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT(20030220,'%j');
+----------------------------+
| 051                        |
+----------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
 
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