How to insert moment JS time into MySQL

DontVoteMeDown answer is right, except that the minutes 'mm' and seconds 'ss' need to be in lowercase, otherwise a wrong value is returned:

myDate =  moment(new Date()).format("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss");

Also, you should check the value sent by javascript before to do your SQL query, in PHP:

DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $myDate);

Will return false if the date is misformatted.


This result happens because you are using the toISOString() method and it is not a valid format to insert into your DATETIME column. The correct format probably is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS(I think it depends on MySQL configuration, but this is the default) as the docs points out.

So you should try using moment's format() method like this:

myDate =  moment(data.myTime.format('YYYY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss')).format("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss");

In fact, I don't know what data.myTime is, but if its a moment object too, you can change the first format() method and remove the second one.


Here's a function extension to format it into the MySQL DateTime format

moment.prototype.toMySqlDateTime = function () {
    return this.format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss');
};

You'll be able to do: moment().toMySqlDateTime();