Date Format amd Sorting

In my sql query I have a statement like this to_char(TRDATE,'DD-Mon-YYYY'). I am converting this to character to display in DD-Mon-YYYY format. Since it is character and when user tries to sort in the report, it is not sorting based on date.
So if I would like to display in DD-Mon-YYYY format and I want to sort based on dates, how can I achieve this?
Thanks

Why? what is your problem. It is working here --
SQL>
SQL> select hiredate,to_char(hiredate,'dd-mon-yyyy')
2 from emp
3 order by hiredate desc;
HIREDATE TO_CHAR(HIREDATE,'DD-MON-YYYY'
23-MAY-87 23-may-2087
19-APR-87 19-apr-2087
23-JAN-82 23-jan-1982
03-DEC-81 03-dec-1981
03-DEC-81 03-dec-1981
17-NOV-81 17-nov-1981
28-SEP-81 28-sep-1981
08-SEP-81 08-sep-1981
09-JUN-81 09-jun-1981
01-MAY-81 01-may-1981
02-APR-81 02-apr-1981
HIREDATE TO_CHAR(HIREDATE,'DD-MON-YYYY'
22-FEB-81 22-feb-1981
20-FEB-81 20-feb-1981
17-DEC-80 17-dec-1980
14 rows selected.Exactly what do you want? Can you specify it more?
Regards.
Satyaki De.

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Can someone point me to a document describing the supported
date formats for sorting? I mean, how should I format a date column
in an XML dataset in order to have this column correctly sorted
using the Spry framework?
Thank you and sorry if the question is trivial.

Thanks, what I have done for the moment as a temporary
solution is to use the two date formats and have them both inside
the one cell in the table (the column for the sortable date
yyyy-mm-dd). In my CSS I have created a style for the first date
that has it's visibility as hidden. That way it's sorting the Date1
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more than one line of text it doesn't look too off centre.
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<tr>
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<th width="151" class="eventhead"
spry:sort="Type">Type</th>
<th width="146" class="eventhead"
spry:sort="Title">Title</th>
<th width="189" class="eventhead"
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Character field with date format alike & character entered

Hi all,
I got one character field created ( varchar2 ) for the purposed to let user the enter the date and also any character since it is a character field.
Hence, my field may contain the following data :-
Ship_date
01/10/2010
07/02/2011
15/01/2011
25/01/2011
31/01/2011
TBA
STOP
11/01/2011
TBA
Hence when come to sorting, I will like it to be date format like sorting so that the earlier date will display first then only follow by the character. The expected result will be :-
ship_date
01/10/2011
11/01/2011
15/01/2011
25/01/2011
31/01/2011
07/02/2011
STOP
TBA
Trying to do the normal sorting, it does not exactly sort on the date format, as it only sort on the first two character on the date hence I am not getting the correct sorting on this.
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07/02/2011
11/01/2011
15/01/2011
25/01/2011
31/01/2011
STOP
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Hi, Lim,
sm**** wrote:
Hi all,
I got one character field created ( varchar2 ) for the purposed to let user the enter the date and also any character since it is a character field.That's a very bad idea. Use a DATE column for storing dates. Have another, separate column for VARCHAR2 data.
Hence when come to sorting, I will like it to be date format like sorting so that the earlier date will display first then only follow by the character. The expected result will be :-
If you must deal with the table as it is:
ORDER BY CASE
          WHEN TRANSLATE ( ship_date
                    , '012345678'
                    , '999999999'
                    ) = '99/99/9999'
          THEN SUBSTR (ship_date, 7)
             || SUBSTR (ship_date, 4, 2)
       END
,       ship_dateThe CASE expressionj sorts anything the looks like a date ('99/99/9999' where '9' stands for any digit) first, in order by the last 4 digits, then the middle 2 digits. The first 2 digits are sorted by the second ORDER BY expression.
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ship_date
01/10/2011
11/01/2011
15/01/2011
25/01/2011
31/01/2011
07/02/2011That must be a mistake. I don't believe you want January to come after October and before February, but if you do, you can change what comes after THEN in the CASE expression.

Sort Date format in Oracle XML Publisher

Hi All,
I have a requirement like trx_date sort. i have taken trx_date in dd-mon-yyyy format. now i given sort option like this..
<?for-each:G_TRX_ORDER_NUMBER?><?sort:TRANSACTION_TYPE?><?sort:DUE_DATE;'ascending';data-type=date?> <?sort:TRX_NUMBER?>
now i have 3 dates
07-NOV-10
20-MAY-11
20-DEC-10
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Can any one tell me what i have to ?
Thanks

What is your application release?
Does the sort work for other data types?
What if you change "<?sort:DUE_DATE;'ascending';data-type=date?>" to "<?sort:DUE_DATE;'ascending';data-type='date'?>", does it make any difference?
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How to Group Data Dynamically at Runtime in a BI/XML Publisher RTF Template? [ID 1062816.1]
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Oracle XML Publisher User's Guide
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Date Format for Spry data set sort

Hi
Just feeling my way through the use of Spry Datasets for the
first time and have a couple of issues hopefully someone with more
knowledge of it than me know the answer to.
I had an issue with my Spry Dataset initially that it would
not work in ie7 but was OK in FF3.
After some mucking round I realised the error I was getting -
albeit obscure in IE was telling me it was a date format issue in
my data set.
The db data I am playing with here is fairly simple: I have a
couple of text fields, an integer field that contains the
unixtimestamp of the entry (its a simple diary application) and a
formal date field that holds the same date in mysql's date format.
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function in my xml query.
I had set this field to date format in the Spry dataset
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I only display the date in this format and one of the other
text fields in my dataset- the unixdate is for programmatic
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invisible. How can I acheive a date based sort with this set up- or
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second query which I will post separately!
Kenny

"Tanushiheadbash" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:gqa70o$iat$[email protected]..
> I think I follow what you are saying and in fact I think
its what I
> already
> have. I have set the sort order to use the unixtime when
the page
> initially
> loads and thats OK.
I am sorry, but you aren't following my explanation. English
isn't my mother
tongue, and I am not able to explain it any better.
> However what I need to be able to do is to have the
AJAX/Javascript sort
> (done in this case with Spry- ) to sort on the date when
the column header
> is
> clicked. The problem I have is the date format in this
visible column is
> in
> DDth Month YYYY format and Spry does not recocnise this
as a date format-
> it
> wants it as a string ( or ie gives an error). Maybe its
not possible what
> I am
> trying to do- just thought there might be a clever way
to implement this.
You can take a look at this page:
http://visual.unipv.it/tmt_calendar/admin/reports/events.cfm
Even if all the dates here are incidentally using the
yyyy-mm-dd format, the
dataset display the date from the "start_date_formatted"
field:
<td><a href="javascript:"
onclick="showUpdate('{event_id}')">{start_date_formatted}</a></td>
But uses another field to sort the table:
<th scope="col" spry:sort="start_date">Start
date</th>
You can have the same date, using two different formats,
inside two,
separated dataset fields. One is used for display, the other
one is used for
sort.
You may try to read again my previous explanations, look at
the code in the
page above and see if you get the idea.
Massimo Foti, web-programmer for hire
Tools for ColdFusion, JavaScript and Dreamweaver:
http://www.massimocorner.com

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Hi Friends,
I am looking for some query which can give me the required output,
I need to do this using SQL query only and I have tried using the MIN() and MAX() functions it was working fine with limited data, now after inserting the last record(in the below table) which has date for start_range and end_range in(mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss) format.
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to_char(max(to_date(END_RANGE,'mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')),'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),max(END_RANGE)) MAX_RUNS_END_RANGE
from MY_TABLE
GROUP BY table_name,
(substr(START_RANGE,3,1)||substr(START_RANGE,6,1)||substr(START_RANGE,11,1)||substr(START_RANGE,14,1)||substr(START_RANGE,17,1)),
(substr(END_RANGE,3,1)||substr(END_RANGE,6,1)||substr(END_RANGE,11,1)||substr(END_RANGE,14,1)||substr(END_RANGE,17,1))
Can sombody please advise what is the best way I can query this data with the required output.
The following are the source table and records and the out put records using the sql query.
MY_TABLE
TABLE_NAME(VARCHAR2),START_RANGE(VARCHAR2),END_RANGE(VARCHAR2)
TABLE1,1000,10000
TABLE2,ABCD,EEEE
TABLE3,01/12/2010 00:00:00,12/31/2010 23:59:59
TABLE1,10001,20000
TABLE2,EEEF,GGGG
TABLE3,01/01/2011 00:00:00,01/31/2011 23:59:59
OUTPUT :
TABLE_NAME,MIN(START_RANGE),MAX(END_RANGE)
TABLE1,1000,20000
TABLE2,ABCD,GGGG
TABLE3,01/12/2010 00:00:00,01/31/2011 23:59:59
Thanks
Kalycs

i also think this is a very bad table design ...
but if you are not able to change it, you could split the select (date and non-date data) and combine the result with UNION like this:
with t as
SELECT 'TABLE1' table_name,'1000' start_range,'10000' end_range FROM dual UNION
SELECT 'TABLE2','ABCD','EEEE' FROM dual UNION
SELECT 'TABLE3','01/12/2010 00:00:00','12/31/2010 23:59:59' FROM dual UNION
SELECT 'TABLE1','10001','20000' FROM dual UNION
SELECT 'TABLE2','EEEF','GGGG' FROM dual UNION
SELECT 'TABLE3','01/01/2011 00:00:00','01/31/2011 23:59:59' FROM dual
SELECT table_name,
       TO_CHAR(MIN(TO_DATE(start_range, 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS')), 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),
       TO_CHAR(MAX(TO_DATE(end_range, 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS')), 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
FROM t
WHERE start_range LIKE '%/%/%:%:%'
GROUP BY table_name
UNION
SELECT table_name,
       MIN(start_range),
       MAX(end_range)
FROM t
WHERE start_range NOT LIKE '%/%/%:%:%'
GROUP BY
    table_name;
TABLE_ MIN_VALUE           MAX_VALUE
TABLE1 1000                20000
TABLE2 ABCD                GGGG
TABLE3 01/12/2010 00:00:00 01/31/2011 23:59:59

Date format issue in Web Analysis...

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A concurrent program has been created with executable as XDODTEXE (XML publisher report).
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How Do i create a list that will show in a dropdown box with the list being pulled from another tab and not the cell data format junk?

How Do i create a list that will show in a dropdown box with the list being pulled from another tab and not the cell data format junk?
I currently run OS X 10.10.1
Now i have been trying to work on this for a while now and what i want to do should be simple but its apparently not.
Here is an example of what i want to happen.
I will have 2 tabs: Contact | Sales
Now Contacts will have the list of names and various information about a customer, While Sales will have one drop-down box for each Cell Row that will show the names of the person in tab contacts
for what i am wanting to do i cant use the data format pop-up menu because the list is edited everyday several times a day.
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Hi Shegra,
Paste this into a applescript editor window and run it from there. In the script you may need to adjust the four properties to agree with your spreadsheet. Let me know if you have any questions.
quinn
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set s to d's sheet DataEntrySheet
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How to convert the date format 'm/d/yyyy hh:mi:ss AM' to 'MM/DD/YYYY HH:M'

How can i convert a the date format 'm/d/yyyy hh:mi:ss AM' to 'MM/DD/YYYY HH:MI:SS AM' in Oracle
I have a query
select UPPER(t.val_10) "TYPE", count(val_3) "Number of Transfers"
from table1 t
where t.is_active = 1
and t.val_4 = 'INBOUND'
and to_date(to_date(val_5,'MM/DD/YYYY HH:MI:SS AM'), 'DD/MM/YY') between to_date(to_date('01/08/2008 00:00:00','DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 'DD/MM/YY') and add_months(to_date(to_date('01/08/2008 00:00:00','DD/MM/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'), 'DD/MM/YY'),1)
group by UPPER(t.val_10)
order by UPPER(t.val_10)
I get the error [ORA-01861: literal does not match format string which i think is because
val_5 has the values in the following format:
8/29/2008 6:31:10 PM
Does anyone have an answer?
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Edited by: user2360027 on 26-Mar-2009 03:50

first off, you've got to_date(to_date(...)) - NEVER do this - you're forcing an implicit to_char which can cause all sorts of problems!
What is the data type of your column val_5? If it's DATE then your query is simply:
select UPPER(t.val_10) "TYPE",
       count(val_3) "Number of Transfers"
from   table1 t
where t.is_active = 1
and    t.val_4 = 'INBOUND'
and    val_5 between to_date('01/08/2008','DD/MM/YYYY') and add_months(to_date('01/08/2008','DD/MM/YYYY') ,1)
group by UPPER(t.val_10)
order by UPPER(t.val_10)If it's a varchar2 (why, oh why, oh why, ...?!), then your query should be:
select UPPER(t.val_10) "TYPE",
       count(val_3) "Number of Transfers"
from   table1 t
where t.is_active = 1
and    t.val_4 = 'INBOUND'
and    to_date(val_5, 'mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi:ss AM') between to_date('01/08/2008','DD/MM/YYYY') and add_months(to_date('01/08/2008','DD/MM/YYYY') ,1)
group by UPPER(t.val_10)
order by UPPER(t.val_10)Remember that dates in DATE format are stored in an internal Oracle format - in order for you to tell Oracle that your string is a date, you need to use to_date. When you want to retrieve a date, you need to use to_char to put it into the format you want to see it in.
Remember also that your nls_date_format defines the default format that you'll see a date, which is what is used in the implicit conversion that oracle does when you select a date:
SQL> alter session set nls_date_format='dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss';
Session altered.
SQL> select sysdate from dual;
SYSDATE
26/03/2009 11:01:53
1 row selected.
SQL> alter session set nls_date_format='mm/dd/yy hh12:mi:ss AM';
Session altered.
SQL> select sysdate from dual;
SYSDATE
03/26/09 11:02:24 AM
1 row selected.It doesn't make sense to convert something that's already in a DATE format into a DATE format - in order to do that, oracle has to first change the date into a string, and it does that by using the nls_date_format parameter setting - if you're working with dates-in-strings that are in a different format, then all sorts of problems arise, as you have found out!

Date format in MVIEW

Hi All,
I have creted the snapshot as
CREATE SNAPSHOT EMPLOYEE_CRIS_MVIEW
PCTFREE 10
PCTUSED 40
MAXTRANS 255
TABLESPACE users
STORAGE (
INITIAL 40960
NEXT 73728
PCTINCREASE 1
MINEXTENTS 1
MAXEXTENTS 505
BUILD IMMEDIATE
REFRESH ON DEMAND
With rowid
AS
select
emp_id,
join_dt,
emp_stat,
from employee_CRIS
The date format for the column join_dt is dd-mon-yyyy.
But I want to modify the date format for this column as 'MM/DD/YYYY'.
For that I tried
ALTER snapshot EMPLOYEE_CRIS_MVIEW modify(TO_CHAR(join_dt,'MM/DD/YYYY'));
But I got the error
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00902: invalid datatype
Could you please help me to change the change the date format of the column of the snapshot
with out dropping the snapshot.
Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

What people are saying is that date columns (of DATE datatype) are stored internally using a fixed internal notation, which is essentially a series of bytes that describe the date.
e.g.
SQL> select empno, ename, hiredate, dump(hiredate) as dump_hiredate from emp;
     EMPNO ENAME      HIREDATE            DUMP_HIREDATE
      7369 SMITH      17/12/1980 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,180,12,17,1,1,1
      7499 ALLEN      20/02/1981 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,2,20,1,1,1
      7521 WARD       22/02/1981 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,2,22,1,1,1
      7566 JONES      02/04/1981 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,4,2,1,1,1
      7654 MARTIN     28/09/1981 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,9,28,1,1,1
      7698 BLAKE      01/05/1981 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,5,1,1,1,1
      7782 CLARK      09/06/1981 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,6,9,1,1,1
      7788 SCOTT      19/04/1987 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,187,4,19,1,1,1
      7839 KING       17/11/1981 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,11,17,1,1,1
      7844 TURNER     08/09/1981 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,9,8,1,1,1
      7876 ADAMS      23/05/1987 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,187,5,23,1,1,1
      7900 JAMES      03/12/1981 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,12,3,1,1,1
      7902 FORD       03/12/1981 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,12,3,1,1,1
      7934 MILLER     23/01/1982 00:00:00 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,182,1,23,1,1,1
14 rows selected.Here, you can see from the dumped dates that they are all stored as 7 bytes of data, which sort of resemble the date you see on the screen in some way, but not quite. It's an internal format that Oracle understands and uses, and it's important it's stored in this way so that date arithmetic and date range comparisons can be performed easily (and quickly) in queries.
If we were to alter our sessions date format (the display format for our session only) and query the data again in the same way...
SQL> alter session set nls_date_format='YYYY-MM-DD';
Session altered.
SQL> select empno, ename, hiredate, dump(hiredate) as dump_hiredate from emp;
     EMPNO ENAME      HIREDATE   DUMP_HIREDATE
      7369 SMITH      1980-12-17 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,180,12,17,1,1,1
      7499 ALLEN      1981-02-20 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,2,20,1,1,1
      7521 WARD       1981-02-22 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,2,22,1,1,1
      7566 JONES      1981-04-02 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,4,2,1,1,1
      7654 MARTIN     1981-09-28 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,9,28,1,1,1
      7698 BLAKE      1981-05-01 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,5,1,1,1,1
      7782 CLARK      1981-06-09 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,6,9,1,1,1
      7788 SCOTT      1987-04-19 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,187,4,19,1,1,1
      7839 KING       1981-11-17 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,11,17,1,1,1
      7844 TURNER     1981-09-08 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,9,8,1,1,1
      7876 ADAMS      1987-05-23 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,187,5,23,1,1,1
      7900 JAMES      1981-12-03 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,12,3,1,1,1
      7902 FORD       1981-12-03 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,12,3,1,1,1
      7934 MILLER     1982-01-23 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,182,1,23,1,1,1
14 rows selected.... whilst the hiredate is now showing on the screen in the format we've chosen, the actual internal storage of those dates remains completely unchanged. i.e. we don't have to change the format of the internal storage of dates to make them display differently.
Likewise you can format dates manually as part of your query using to_char function...
SQL> select empno, ename, to_char(hiredate,'DD Month YYYY') as hiredate, dump(hiredate) as dump_hiredate from emp;
     EMPNO ENAME      HIREDATE          DUMP_HIREDATE
      7369 SMITH      17 December 1980 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,180,12,17,1,1,1
      7499 ALLEN      20 February 1981 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,2,20,1,1,1
      7521 WARD       22 February 1981 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,2,22,1,1,1
      7566 JONES      02 April     1981 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,4,2,1,1,1
      7654 MARTIN     28 September 1981 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,9,28,1,1,1
      7698 BLAKE      01 May       1981 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,5,1,1,1,1
      7782 CLARK      09 June      1981 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,6,9,1,1,1
      7788 SCOTT      19 April     1987 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,187,4,19,1,1,1
      7839 KING       17 November 1981 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,11,17,1,1,1
      7844 TURNER     08 September 1981 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,9,8,1,1,1
      7876 ADAMS      23 May       1987 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,187,5,23,1,1,1
      7900 JAMES      03 December 1981 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,12,3,1,1,1
      7902 FORD       03 December 1981 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,181,12,3,1,1,1
      7934 MILLER     23 January   1982 Typ=12 Len=7: 119,182,1,23,1,1,1
14 rows selected.
SQL>Again, the internal date format remains the same.
It is important that, when you store date information you store it as DATE datatype and let oracle use it's internal format, so that it can accurately do the date arithmetic, date range searches and date ordering etc., that everyone likes to do in queries. If you try and store it as VARCHAR2 then not only can information be lost (i.e. is '01/02/2010' representing 1st February 2010 or is it 2nd January 2010?) but you prevent date arithmetic, range searches and ordering in your queries from working correctly (i.e. '03/01/2009' would work out to be a greater date than '01/02/2010'). To prove it...
SQL> select 'Wrong' from dual where '03/01/2009' > '01/02/2010';
'WRON
Wrong
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1* select 'Wrong' from dual where to_date('03/01/2009','DD/MM/YYYY') > to_date('01/02/2010','DD/MM/YYYY')
SQL> /
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SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF BLOCK b2 WITH FRAME TITLE text-031.
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In many cases the date display is set to show the reception hour on the same day (fine), the previous day is shown as "yesterday" and the day before yesterday as "the day-before-yesterday", and finally "two days ago".
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