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Asked: 2026-05-30T05:00:43+00:00

I have the following simple query that I execute on a SQLite3 database: SELECT

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I have the following simple query that I execute on a SQLite3 database:

SELECT AField,AnotherField FROM ATable WHERE AnIntField>strftime('%s');

This works fine and returns the expected result.

If I perform the slightly modified query:

SELECT AField,AnotherField FROM ATable WHERE AnIntField+86400>strftime('%s');

Then I don’t get any results! This doesn’t make any sense! I have tried putting brackets around AnIntField+86400 but that doesn’t help. And yes, the values of AnIntField are sufficiently larger than strftime('%s') that it won’t return different results.

Is there any reason for this behaviour?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is a total guess but what happens if you wrap AnIntField+86400 in the SQLite3 equivalent of a cast ?

    In TSQL you’d do something like this:

    WHERE CAST(AnIntField + 86400 AS int) > strftime('%s')

    My thought is that the AnIntField+val is coming out as an append rather than addition.

    Actually, if cast doesn’t work, try changing select to 

    SELECT AnIntField+86400 FROM ...

    And see what it spits out.

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