On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 01:41:15 +0800, you wrote:

>I have a table that includes 3 columns for day, month and year. Example:
>Day, Month, Year
>11,Jan, 1974
>4,Sep, 1921

That would be your problem - you should be using your database's native date
type.

>I need to construct a query where users can specify a starting date.
>Currently, I stuck in mktime function became of the 1970 epoch problem. It
>gives an error for dates before 1970.
>Anyone has  a solution?

[assumes mysql]

http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Date_and_time_types.html

SELECT * FROM table WHERE start_date > '1969-08-25';

[for anyone who's interested, Raymond Chen's excellent journal had a short
article on various Windows timestamps:
http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/permalink.aspx/99c54993-5c5e-45b9-95c1-c20a0526ce0b]

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