I have a date time field in a MySQL database and wish to output the result to the nearest hour.
e.g. 2012-04-01 00:00:01 should read 2012-04-01 00:00:00
解决方案
You can do it with some date arithmetic:
SELECT some_columns,
DATE_ADD(
DATE_FORMAT(the_date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:00:00"),
INTERVAL IF(MINUTE(the_date) < 30, 0, 1) HOUR
) AS the_rounded_date
FROM your_table
Explanations:
DATE_FORMAT: DATE_FORMAT(the_date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:00:00") returns the date truncated down to the nearest hour (sets the minute and second parts to zero).
MINUTE: MINUTE(the_date) gets the minute value of the date.
IF: This is a conditional; if the value in parameter 1 is true, then it returns parameter 2, otherwise it returns parameter 3. So IF(MINUTE(the_date) < 30, 0, 1) means "If the minute value is less than 30, return 0, otherwise return 1". This is what we're going to use to round -- it's the number of hours to add back on.
DATE_ADD: This adds the number of hours for the round into the result.