This blog tell the difference between the Datetime vs Timestamp in MySQL and PHP. 1> Datetime and Timestamp are used to store datetime and then retrieve the datetime back. 2> Basically, In this we ...

MySQL UDF function implemented in C++ for getting the unix timestamp of a DATETIME, TIME, DATE, TIMESTAMP field in miliseconds. Much faster than UNIX_TIMESTAMP builtin function.

and then looking for the first one that contains a created-time before the timestamp we want. We then read that binlog and look for the first GTID events around $TS ...

Convert date in MS Excel to integer MySQL or Unix timestamp. Converting data into different data formats and platforms can be complicated if we do not know how to do it easily, and especially quickly.