Notice the result of the NOW() function in the following query. The query was run on a real database server and I didn’t change the clock of the server or change anything in the database configuration settings.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | mysql> SELECT NOW(),SYSDATE(); +---------------------+---------------------+ | NOW() | SYSDATE() | +---------------------+---------------------+ | 1999-01-01 00:00:00 | 2012-11-29 05:50:03 | +---------------------+---------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) |
You may proceed to party like it is 1999. How can the NOW() function return a value [...]
