There are a whole heap of very useful date functions in chapter 7 of the
manual that will make all your problems disappear.
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From: "Roo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 23:00
Subject: Date comparisions...
> Hi all,
>
> I was recently attempting what I thought would be an easy search. I wanted
> to return all records with a birthdate (a DATE column) 'within' 30 days of
> the current date.
>
> The birthdate is stored as a YYYY-MM-DD, I have been having lots of
trouble
> getting MySQL to return the correct records, my problems are..
>
> 1.I need to ignore the year value as all birthdates will be previous to
the
> current if the year is included.
> 2.I need to check if a birthdate is in the same month as the current month
> and that its day is not less than the current day.
> 3.Then I need to check how many days there are left in the current month,
> take it away from 30 and then check for birthdates in the following month
> within that many days.
>
> So much for being a simple problem!
>
> Anyone have any experience of doing this..?
>
> LINUX..MySQL 3.22.32 on apache
>
> thanks a bunch for any info
>
> Rolf
>
> ___________________________________________
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>
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