date_compare_datetime(date1, date2);
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
| date1 | The first datetime. |
| date2 | The datetime to compare it to. |
Returns: Real
With this function you can check two dates and times to see
which one is the earlier or later than the other. The function
returns -1 if date1 is earlier, 1 if date1 is later and 0 if they
are the same, although since this takes time into account as well,
a 0 for matching is very rare (it literally has to be the same
second of the same day of the same month of the same year to return
a 0).
d = date_compare_date(date_create_datetime( 2011, 9, 15, 11, 4, 0 ), date_current_datetime());
This would set d to the corresponding value depending on which of the datetimes was the earliest, likely -1 since the current date would be further ahead than 15th September 2011.