Importing a CSV to MySQL with different date format

Solution 1:

You can replace format during importing data from the CSV file, for example -

LOAD DATA INFILE 'file_name.csv'
INTO TABLE table_name
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
(id, column2, column3, @date_time_variable) -- read one of the field to variable
SET date_time_column = STR_TO_DATE(@date_time_variable, '%d-%b-%Y'); -- format this date-time variable

It will format the string like '31-Jan-2011' to a correct DATETIME data type.

More information here - LOAD DATA INFILE Syntax.

Solution 2:

mysql> SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2009-10-04 22:23:00', '%Y-%m-%d');
+------------------------------------------------+
| DATE_FORMAT('2009-10-04 22:23:00', '%Y-%m-%d') |
+------------------------------------------------+
| 2009-10-04                                     | 
+------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)