PHP and MySQL smallest and largest possible date

Question

What is the largest date PHP and MySQL recognizes?

I mean, I have different values for different timeline and I want to make them all as BETWEEN selects

Answer 1

Could you do it like this:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE date < '2011-10-01';
SELECT * FROM table WHERE date BETWEEN '2011-10-02' AND '2011-10-10';
SELECT * FROM table WHERE date > '2011-10-11'