At 15:41 -0400 10/1/02, Chuck Payne wrote: >Hi, > >I am having problems get how many days out an invoice is from mysql. I have >try this. > >SELECT NOW()-summitted_date FROM table; > >But it not working as usually. So please guys a little help.
What do you mean "not working as usually"? A query written like that will *never* work. That's not how you do date arithmetic in MySQL. (That is, MySQL will calculate an answer, but it's not going to be what you seem to expect.) Try TO_DAYS(NOW()) - TO_DAYS(summitted_date) to get the difference between dates in days. > >So If an invoice was summitted on 9-26-02 then I should be able to see that >5 days. > >Chuck Payne >Magi Design and Support >sql, mysql --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
