This was asked briefly in the chatterbox already, but it might be easier to ask through here.

I have an image gallery script that SHOULD sort out the images in ASC order (last uploaded picture will be displayed first). For some unknown reason, it doesn't do that.

After doing more scanning of this old code, the timestamp is in gimtime() format "my $timestamp = gmtime();" so it looks like "Sat Jun 25 01:32:22 2005". Is this format an acceptable timestamp that can be sorted in MySQL ASC or DESC?

I have to imagine it can't be and that would explain the problem. And if that were the case, is there a function to convert gmtime back into a sortable time?

In reply to GMtime stamping for MySQL by coldfingertips

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.