I have a date comparison problem that I'm sure is simple enough but I'm just
not experienced enough to figure it out. I simply want to grab every entry
Um.
First of all, better code would be:
my @now = localtime( );
$now[5] += 1900;
$now[4] += 1;
$currenttime = sprintf( '%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d', @now[5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0] );
Second, to add/subtract dates in perl and other languages, check out Date::Calc.
Third, in MySQL you cand do something like:
WHERE some_date>DATE_SUB( NOW( ), INTERVAL 5 DAY)
Check out the MySQL manual for more info on DATE_SUB.
--Bill
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