Sqlite - Date and Time Data Types

SQLite handles dates quite strangely. If you create a table and put a date in it, the only way SQLite will take the input is "2004-06-01 12:00:00" anything else it won't recognize as a date and thus none of the date functions will work. Assuming you have a date entered propely (like above) you get date information from the db like so.

SELECT date(DateField) FROM Table; SELECT time(DateField) FROM Table; SELECT datetime(DateField) FROM Table;

If you want unix time (seconds since the epoch) you have to format the output.

SELECT strftime("%s",DateField) FROM Table;

However that will return the time in UTC which is probably not what you want (it's not what I wanted). I want it to compensate for my local timezone and thus you have to tell it to use your timezone.

SELECT strftime("%s",DateField,'localtime') FROM Table;

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Sources: Perturb.org , Sqlite Wiki
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