Re: searching by date range help needed

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15686
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texte = >So somebody on this list must have done a date range search and can direct >me to what concept I seem to be missing.It's broken, I've tried it, and what *should* work does not ... :(WebCat cannot handle certain date comparisons properly, especially ones that go back past the end of the month. It seems to give me the proper results when the comparison results in a *positive* number.And fortunately for me, at least in the situation where I'm using this date comparison stuff, I don't need to get an exact value when the results are a *negative* number, I only need to see a number that's less than zero -- which it gives me -- but it will NOT give me a negative number larger than -31, even if it's supposed to be giving me -45 or -90 or whatever ... so something's still broken under the hood.Sincerely, Ken Grome ken@iav.com 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions http://www.hui.net/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: searching by date range help needed (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  2. Re: searching by date range help needed (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  3. searching by date range help needed (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
>So somebody on this list must have done a date range search and can direct >me to what concept I seem to be missing.It's broken, I've tried it, and what *should* work does not ... :(WebCat cannot handle certain date comparisons properly, especially ones that go back past the end of the month. It seems to give me the proper results when the comparison results in a *positive* number.And fortunately for me, at least in the situation where I'm using this date comparison stuff, I don't need to get an exact value when the results are a *negative* number, I only need to see a number that's less than zero -- which it gives me -- but it will NOT give me a negative number larger than -31, even if it's supposed to be giving me -45 or -90 or whatever ... so something's still broken under the hood.Sincerely, Ken Grome ken@iav.com 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions http://www.hui.net/ Kenneth Grome

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