I tried formatting a new column to contain the date but it just won't
read the date when it's formatted like this : 11/24/2010.
I'm not sure what you mean by the transforming between the two
different numbers sentence.

On Nov 25, 1:04 am, Viz Kid <[email protected]> wrote:
> It seems that you are right - the timestamp column you have is counting days
> since 1/1/1900 which is not what toDate expects. In order to solve it, you
> can simply format that column in the spreadsheet to be Date (by pressing the
> "123" button and choosing "Date"). Otherwise, you will need to transform
> between the two different numbers yourself (switching between days and
> milliseconds and the offset of 1970 instead of 1900).
>
> Best,
>   Viz Kid
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> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Deliman96 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am trying all of this stuff in various ways and it's just working
> > for me. I'm really unsure of what the problem is. it will show the
> > column headers but it just wont show any of the rows unless i place
> > that date in the 12345.6789 notation.
>
> > On Nov 24, 1:05 am, Viz Kid <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > This is clear now.
>
> > > Luckily, you can perform what you need.
> > > First, the complete documentation pages of the query language can be
> > found
> > > here:
> >http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/querylanguage...
>
> > > When you want to translate a date in string format like '2010-11-23' into
> > a
> > > real date you can simply use the keyword 'date' (for example: 'where date
> > > '2010-11-23' < A'). If the column A is not of type date but rather a
> > > datetime, you can either construct a datetime in the query using the
> > > datetime keyword or convert column A to a date using toDate(A) in the
> > query
> > > instead of A. Also, you have the now() scalar function so you can use
> > > toDate(now()) to get the current date.
>
> > > The scalar functions documentation (in the same page):
> >http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/querylanguage...
>
> > > Hope this helps,
> > >   Viz Kid
>
> > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Deliman96 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Sorry about the link. It was just an example of the query where it
> > > > says "select B,C,D,E". I didn't intend for it to actually link.
>
> > > > The following link is the page where I learned about what I am trying
> > > > to do.
>
> > > >http://blog.ouseful.info/2009/05/18/using-google-spreadsheets-as-a-da.
> > ..
>
> > > > These two links are the spreadsheet and query.
>
> > > >https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tYK02LkiX1h0uQCFb8i-uKw&hl=en.
> > ..
>
> > > >https://spreadsheets.google.com/tq?tqx=out:html&tq=select%20A,B%20whe.
> > ..
>
> > > > What I want to do is have a link where it will do a query that is
> > > > something like "where A contains today", so that everyday the link
> > > > will query that day. So the same link will pull all the rows where
> > > > column A contains "11/23/2010" on 11/23/2010 and on the next day
> > > > (11/24/2010) all the rows where A contains "11/24/2010". Sorry, this
> > > > feels rather difficult to describe clearly. There are  few problems I
> > > > am having. The first is that it doesn't seem to take "today" as a
> > > > valid query. If there is something that it WILL take, that would be
> > > > best. If I have to actually do it by each individual day, it would be
> > > > nice to be able to query it using the actual formatted way:
> > > > "11/24/2010". But the time stamp is actually a decimal number that
> > > > represents the day: "40505.861400463". It will only take the decimal
> > > > number in the url.
>
> > > > I think that's about as descript and clear as I can get. If you have
> > > > any more questions let me know.
>
> > > > What I would like to do is have something
> > > > On Nov 23, 3:14 am, Viz Kid <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Hi
>
> > > > > I'm not sure what you meant (and I cannot see the spreadsheet you
> > linked
> > > > > to).
> > > > > Please try to explain in more details and possibly provide
> > > > > an accessible example spreadsheet.
>
> > > > > Best,
> > > > >   Viz Kid
>
> > > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Deliman96 <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > > > Hello,
>
> > > > > > I am trying to query a google spreadsheet using the url like so:
>
> >http://spreadsheets.google.com/tq?tqx=out:html&tq=%20select%20B,C,D,E.
> > > > ..
>
> > > > > > What I would like to do is have a code that will always query it
> > > > > > according to "today" ( what ever day it may be at the time) right
> > now
> > > > > > I tried to use the "where A contains '40496'" but that is only for
> > a
> > > > > > single day. I would like it to be dynamic.
>
> > > > > > Thanks
>
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