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'Best' date type: store as Unix timestamp or MySQL DATETIME? - El Forum - 10-21-2008
[eluser]Daniel H[/eluser]
Hi
I have always used DATETIME as the field type for any date related fields in MySQL. But now I'm working on a site that will have to do some timezone manipulations etc., so I will make great use of the date helper. However, I was wondering what was best practice... to store Unix formatted timestamps as, say, an INT(10) in MySQL, or do Unix/DATETIME conversions on the fly?
Bear in mind that I won't be using MySQL's own TIMESTAMP type.
Thanks,
Dan.