Re: how to compare 2 dates

[Petite Abeille <petite_abeille@...>]

On May 6, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Diego - Red Baires wrote:

> is this correct ?will this work to all locales ?what about comparing  
> times ? (i mean, if a time is between two values)

As mentioned by Robert, this is not going to fly very far as you would  
be comparing two random strings... you could use a more comparison  
friendly string representation such as ISO 8601 or something, e.g.  
1997-07-16T19:20:30.45... but you will be better off using a numerical  
representation such as the one returned by os.time():

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-os.time