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Ray's idea is the best better than I thought when asking question<br />
and the zappafan2k2 is the answer to the question.
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Ray's idea is the best better than I thought when asking question
and the zappafan2k2 is the answer to the question.

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Thanks for the points. &nbsp;Be aware that PHP and MySQL use different time-keeping strategies.<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html</a>
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Thanks for the points.  Be aware that PHP and MySQL use different time-keeping strategies.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Web_Languages-Standards/PHP/A_201-Handling-date-and-time-in-PHP-and-MySQL.html]

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How would this be done?
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use php pdo to update datetime column with current time using mysql

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