Posted by turnitup on 09/09/06 08:40

I have found that by far the easiest way to store dates in my LAMP
application is in a text string in the database in Unixtime format.

First of all, what would be the most efficient data type to store this as?

Secondly, in terms of translating into a human readable format, is it
quicker to format the date in the application using date() or in the
database in the select query?

Any thoughts?

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