Select records from NOW() -1 Day

Question

Is there a way in a MySQL statement to order records (through a date stamp) by >= NOW() -1 so all records from the day before today to the future are selected?

Answer 1

Be aware that the result may be slightly different than you expect.

NOW() returns a DATETIME.

And INTERVAL works as named, e.g. INTERVAL 1 DAY = 24 hours.

So if your script is cron'd to run at 03:00, it will miss the first three hours of records from the 'oldest' day.

To get the whole day use CURDATE() - INTERVAL 1 DAY. This will get back to the beginning of the previous day regardless of when the script is run.