Re: Dates

Hi Andrew, and other ones,

It was exactly what I was looking for!!

Thanks!!

Regards,

Marcelo

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 --- Andrew Rawnsley <ronz@ravensfield.com> escreveu:
>
> Subtracting two dates/timestamps will return an
> interval. So
>
> select now()::date - '2004-01-13'::date
>
> returns 34.
>
> Is this what you need?
>
> On Feb 16, 2004, at 2:01 PM, MaRCeLO PeReiRA wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I am in troubles with some dates.
> >
> >
> > "I need to know the difference, in days, between
> two
> > dates."
> >
> > Well, if the difference is less than a month, so I
> > could use:
> >
> > SELECT date_part('day', age(now(), mydate));
> >
> > But, when it is bigger than a month, the select
> above
> > return a wrong information to me:
> >
> > For instance:
> >
> > intranet=# select age('30/01/2004', '01/03/2004');
> >           age
> > -----------------------
> >  @ 1 mon 2 days 1 hour
> >
> > So, if I use date_part(), it would return "2
> days",
> > not "31 days", that is what I was waiting for.
> >
> > How can I get the difference, in days, between two
> > dates???
> >
> > Thanks in advance and
> > Best Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> >
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