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

Maybe get the max and min values from your table first:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE date BETWEEN (SELECT MIN(date) FROM table) AND (SELECT MAX(date) FROM table)

Answer 2

MySQL's DATETIME type supports from "1000-01-01" to "9999-12-31". That should be sufficient.

PHP can analyze those as well; they aren't two digit years, so it's good. I just ran strtotime on 9999-01-01 and it worked.

Answer 3

Dates are nothing more than integers. Integer size are system dependent; i.e. 32 bit, 64 bit, etc.

In php integer size can be determined using the constant PHP_INT_SIZE, and maximum value using the constant PHP_INT_MAX

In mysql you can do something lke this: SELECT ~0 as max_bigint_unsigned

Answer 4

The DATE type is used for values with a date part but no time part. MySQL retrieves and displays DATE values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format. The supported range is '1000-01-01' to '9999-12-31'.

taken from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/datetime.html

Answer 5

Here is the different date range , depends on your column type:

As per docs

The DATE type is used for values with a date part but no time part. MySQL retrieves and displays DATE values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format. The supported range is '1000-01-01' to '9999-12-31'.

The DATETIME type is used for values that contain both date and time parts. MySQL retrieves and displays DATETIME values in 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' format. The supported range is '1000-01-01 00:00:00' to '9999-12-31 23:59:59'.

The TIMESTAMP data type is used for values that contain both date and time parts. TIMESTAMP has a range of '1970-01-01 00:00:01' UTC to '2038-01-19 03:14:07' UTC.

Answer 6

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'