Filtering/sorting by aspect ratio?

When sorting using aspect ratio, LR3 only has 3 option: landscape, portrait, square, but there are many other aspect ratios defined in the catalog such as 2x3, 10x16, etc.  Is there any way to tell LR3 to only display images of a certain aspect ratio, such as 4x6??  Alternatively, is there anyway to have LR conspiculously display this information, so I can tell by looking?  I know in "info overlay" there is an option to show "cropped demension", but this is shown as number of pixels which is a little hard to tell at a glance that ratio they are.
This is important for me because if I want to print an image, I must decide what size print I want and must make sure the image is of correct aspect ratio.

Thank you, guys... I like your advice and I will heed it moving forward.  I am completely self-taught (as I suppose most of us are) and I learn more and more as with each site, page, and mistake!
To answer your question about why I didn't use datetime, it's because there are actually three time factors for each event... date (which is a date field), start_time (which is a time field), and end_time (also a time field.)  I created a CMS for my friend (it's a site for her non-profit group) so that she can add/edit/delete events herself. She enters the date, start time, and end time (along with other info) into a form and submits (inserts) the record.
Using separate fields/columns just made more sense to me, as it's easy to use different form fields to submit the data, and also so that the date and times can be modified independently.  Lastly, I needed two time fields anyway, so either way there would have been an additional time field.  I'm not 100% sure if this all makes sense, but it's what occurred to me at the time I was coding it.
In this case, for example, even if I'd used datetime for the event, I would still have a separate field for end_time, which is what I would need to be checking in this query.  So, date is a date type, and end_time is a time type... any thoughts on how to go about this query?
(On a totally unrelated note, I just created my first Cron Job to delete old events once a month, and successfully tested it... learning more and more every day!)
Message was edited by: Mike_Watt because typos are in his nature.
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