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1. A UNIX timestamp
2. not directly - however, there is a MySQL function that can be used - UNIX_TIMESTAMP("date_variable") - but if you already have that database dump, I don't know how you can add the function call to each date unless you do some processing of the to-be-imported data in PHP before inserting in the database.
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