{"id":1232,"date":"2015-01-06T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2022-02-17T06:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:24:03","slug":"datetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/databases\/sqlite\/columns\/datetime","title":{"rendered":"DateTime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlite.org\/lang_datefunc.html\">https:\/\/www.sqlite.org\/lang_datefunc.html<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h4>\nReading DateTime&nbsp;In Select Statements<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\nYou need to specify you want the value returning in a DateTime format or you can just get the year portion returned!\n<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n<code>\r\n\tCommand1-&gt;CommandText = &quot;SELECT datetime(LogDateTime) as LogDateTime, SomeOtherColumnName FROM MyTable&quot;;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<h4>\nFaster Searches Based On Date<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\nOne nice and&nbsp;simple solution is to store dates as an intiger using this format:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYYYYMMDD, so 1st Jan 2015 would be 20150101\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThen when performing select queries SQLite&nbsp;only has to work with integers not strings.\n<\/p>\n<h4>\nConvert C++ DateTime to String for SQLite<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\nSQLite does not have a storage class set aside for storing dates and\/or times. Instead, the built-in Date And Time Functions of SQLite are capable of storing dates and times as TEXT, REAL, or INTEGER values:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\nTEXT as ISO8601 strings (&quot;YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSS&quot;).<br \/>\nREAL as Julian day numbers, the number of days since noon in Greenwich on November 24, 4714 B.C. according to the proleptic Gregorian calendar.<br \/>\nINTEGER as Unix Time, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n<code>\r\nString ^DateTimeString = LogDateTime.ToString(&quot;yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff&quot;);\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h4>\nDefault&nbsp;to now<br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<pre>\r\n<code>\r\nCREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tbl1(id int primary key, dt datetime default current_timestamp);\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>\nThe DEFAULT constraint specifies a default value to use when doing an INSERT. The value may be NULL, a string constant, a number, or a constant expression enclosed in parentheses. The default value may also be one of the special case-independant keywords CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_DATE or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf the value is NULL, a string constant or number, it is inserted into the column whenever an INSERT statement that does not specify a value for the column is executed.&nbsp;If the value is CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_DATE or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, then the current UTC date and\/or time is inserted into the columns.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\nFor CURRENT_TIME&nbsp;the format is HH:MM:SS.<br \/>\nFor CURRENT_DATE it is&nbsp;YYYY-MM-DD.<br \/>\nFor CURRENT_TIMESTAMP it&nbsp;is &quot;YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.sqlite.org\/lang_datefunc.html Reading DateTime&nbsp;In Select Statements You need to specify you want the value returning in a DateTime format or you can just get the year portion returned! Command1-&gt;CommandText = &quot;SELECT datetime(LogDateTime) as LogDateTime, SomeOtherColumnName FROM MyTable&quot;; &nbsp; Faster Searches Based On Date One nice and&nbsp;simple solution is to store dates as an intiger using this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}