Steve Ruby writes:
>
>
> For over a year the topic of mathematical operations on date values
> has been disussed. It has never been possible to perform such math
> on a date value without using DATE_ADD or converting the to days or
> seconds first.
>
> Why is this now all the sudden a reasonable bug?
>
> Aurelian:
> I suggest that you use DATE_ADD, I'm quite sure what you have found
> is not a bug
> 20010501 - 1 = 20010500
>
> MySQL sees CURRENT_DATE as the value 20010501 and performs your subtraction
> as requested, if you want to subtract a day from today I suggest
> DATE_ADD( CURRENT_DATE, INTERVAL -1 DAY )
>
> Or the previously suggested TO_DAYS, FROM_DAYS method.
>
You are right, of course !
Regards,
Sinisa
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