Datetime in humane format

So, I followed the advice in the archives and used the datetime type.

Now, I've got entries like 'Sun Sep 06 00:06:57 1998 EDT' in my table.

So, how do I turn that into something that a normal human can read?

"Sep 06 1998 12:06 am" would be nice...

Or, how do I turn that back into seconds since epoch?  I'm using PHP which
has a nice date function that I think I can coerce into giving me what I
want... unless it also thinks that humans understand 00:06:57 as just after
midnight...

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-- "TANSTAAFL" Rich lynch@lscorp.com