Converting a date string which is before 1970 into a timestamp in MySQL.
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Not a very good title, so my apologies.
For some reason, (i wasn't the person who did it, i digress) we have a table structure where the field type for a date is varchar. (odd).
We have some dates, such as:
1932-04-01 00:00:00 and 1929-07-04 00:00:00
I need to do a query which will convert these date strings into a unix time stamp, however, in my sql if you convert a date which is before 1970 it will return 0.
Any ideas?
Thanks so much!
EDIT: Wrong date format. ooops.
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