Re: [NOVICE] (Fwd) Hi and some advice on Dates

G'day ,

Thanks for your reply.

> > How to query a table and look for any records where
> > the value in a date field is greater than (say) 10 days ago
> >
> > Calculate the difference between two times on the same day. (I have
> > experimented with age() and it sort of does wht I want..is there any
> > other way ?)
>
> Use Perl as a database interface and have a look at de Perl module
> Date::Manip. It has all you need, and more.
>
Will have a look ! I am using perl for an interface to this db
anyway. I didn't realise there was a date module !

Andrew
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