Don't databases store 'date' types such that they CAN be compared exactly
as you want?
-David
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:30:57 +0100 "James Smith"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ORDER BY Date will include the year, so 01/JAN/1940 will always
> appear
> before 02/DEC/1999 even though on 01/DEC/2000 it is only one day to
> the
> second date but 31 days to the first. That is why I need the
> datecompare
> function (although it is slightly more complicated than just
> datecompare(date, now()) it is actually
>
> #abs(datediff("D", createdate(year(now()), month(date), day(date)),
> now()))#
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