It sound like you have Oracle installed on one machine and are attempting to
connect to it from another machine. If this is the case you may need to
install the client libraries on the machine that does not have oracle
installed. I recently did some development for a client in Windows and
Try something like:
date_format(news_date, '%d %M %Y @ %H:%I:%S')
Go to http://www.mysql.com/doc/D/a/Date_and_time_functions.html and look for
date_format to determine what parameters to use in order to format the date
as you want it. Note that this method will actually format the date
