If by “convert to seconds“, you mean “convert to an UNIX Timestamp” (i.e. number of seconds since 1970-01-01
), then you can use the UNIX_TIMESTAMP
function :
select UNIX_TIMESTAMP(your_datetime_field)
from your_table
where ...
And, for the sake of completness, to convert from an Unix Timestamp to a datetime, you can use the FROM_UNIXTIME
function.