2009/9/21 Barton Torbert <btorb...@fbdover.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble doing a rather odd data comparison.
>
> I have two table, each with a DateTime field.  The timestamps in these fields 
> do not match exactly.  I want to find the row in the second table that is 
> within a specific time period around the time period to the DateTime in the 
> first table.

Note that SQLite has no native DateTime type. A DateTime could be a
text string, or a real Julian day. What is your data?

>
> I have tried various combinations of reformatting the data to do a 
> comparison.  None of these works.  In particular I had hoped that the 
> strftime function (converting using the '%s' format to seconds since 
> 1970-01-01 would work but it does not.  The comparison with = is okay, but I 
> need to use some combination of < and > or a BETWEEN.  Nothing seems to work.

I can't tell what is wrong because you have provided no examples.

>
> Does anybody have a suggestion?

(Re)read http://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html

Provide more information on what you are doing...

>
> Bart
>

Regards,
Simon
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