Re: Re: Birthday comparisons

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:45:41PM +0000, Andy Corteen wrote:
> I foolishly trashed the original postings about calculating if
> birthdays fall between two dates, ignoring the year parts. However...
>
> It struck me that the easiest way to make the comparison might be to
> normalize the date to be tested such that the year does not matter,
> then simply use the BETWEEN operator to make the test.

how about
    birthday_between('1998-12-25','1998-12-1','1999-1-1')
? doesn't that pose a year-relevant problem?

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