> > At 23:39 -0800 12/16/02, Troy Kruthoff wrote: > > > >Description: > > > Invalid reporting of date calc > > >>How-To-Repeat: > > > note: SESSIONTS is TIMESTAMP type > > > > > > SELECT (NOW()-SESSIONTS) FROM WEBSESSIONS; > > > > What leads you to expect that this should yield any useful result? > According to the documentation of the NOW() function: "Returns the current date and time as a value in 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' or YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format, depending on whether the function is used in a string or numeric context" Assuming SESSIONTS is of type TIMESTAMP, "SELECT (NOW()-SESSIONTS)" should return the differences in seconds.... But it does not, in fact I can not determine what MySQL is returning, it does not appear to be any accurate measurement of time. Troy
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