Re: searching by date range help needed
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
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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, especiallyones that go back past the end of the month. It seems to give me theproper results when the comparison results in a *positive* number.And fortunately for me, at least in the situation where I'm usingthis date comparison stuff, I don't need to get an exact value whenthe results are a *negative* number, I only need to see a numberthat's less than zero -- which it gives me -- but it will NOT give mea negative number larger than -31, even if it's supposed to be givingme -45 or -90 or whatever ... so something's still broken under thehood.Sincerely,Ken Gromeken@iav.com808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionshttp://www.hui.net/
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>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, especiallyones that go back past the end of the month. It seems to give me theproper results when the comparison results in a *positive* number.And fortunately for me, at least in the situation where I'm usingthis date comparison stuff, I don't need to get an exact value whenthe results are a *negative* number, I only need to see a numberthat's less than zero -- which it gives me -- but it will NOT give mea negative number larger than -31, even if it's supposed to be givingme -45 or -90 or whatever ... so something's still broken under thehood.Sincerely,Ken Gromeken@iav.com808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionshttp://www.hui.net/
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