How to Set Up Named Time Zones in MariaDB

If you want to use named time zones in MariaDB, you’ll need to make sure they’ve been configured.

By “named time zones”, I mean being able to use strings like America/Los_Angeles instead of −08:00 or −07:00 when specifying the time zone. For example, when using the CONVERT_TZ() function.

Here’s how to configure named time zones in MariaDB.

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How to Format the Date in MongoDB

If you have documents that store dates as Date objects, but you want to return them in a different format, you can use the $dateToString aggregate pipeline operator.

For example, you might want a date to be returned in mm/dd/yyyy format instead of the long ISODate() format that includes minutes, seconds, milliseconds, etc

The $dateToString operator converts the Date object to a string, and optionally allows you to specify a format for the resulting output.

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8 Ways to Add Days to a Date in MariaDB

MariaDB provides several ways to add a certain number of days to a given date. For example, you might want to add 10 days to a date, or 30 days, or even just 1 day. Fortunately, MariaDB makes this easy.

Here are 8 ways to add a number of days to a given date in MariaDB.

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