Thanks Arran, I'll give it a try. I did find something to do with %1 / %I (can't remember which) and dividing by "epoch" so may be able to use that too? If in doubt give it a go eh? Thanks Andy -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+andy.franks=sath.nhs.uk@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+andy.franks=sath.nhs.uk@lists.freeradiu s.org] On Behalf Of Arran Cudbard-Bell Sent: 18 September 2012 23:05 To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: unlang time / date comparison On 18 Sep 2012, at 22:38, "Franks Andy \(RLZ\) IT Systems Engineer" <Andy.Franks@sath.nhs.uk> wrote:

Hi,

Hopefully a simple question. I've looked around for a while but can't find the answer to this.

I'd like to be able to take a date/time from a sql database, use unlang (not a module) to compare it to the current time and make a decision based on the fact that it's, for example, less or more than 3600 seconds/60 minutes/1 hour etc ago.

Use one of the SQL functions (UNIX_TIMESTAMP()) to pull the date field value out as an integer and do a straight comparison with "%{l}". Or if you write a SQL timestamp string into a date type attribute, it might be smart enough to parse it for you, and then you can do "%{integer:Timestamp-Attr}" and compare with "%{l}". Not 100% sure the code is there to do that though... -Arran - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html