Of course, you understand that this has nothing to do with Perl :)

i tried to cahnge the msyql column of date fro m text to datetime but what i get is 00-00-00 00:00:00

If you have to handle a datetime, use a datetime and not a text. There are two considerations about this:

• first of all, you don't need to get your time from Perl here. You can use the NOW() function in MySQL to get the current time;
• if the database insists on telling you "00-00-00 00:00:00", why don't you stick to the same format? It seems that it's expecting something like "YY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss", so your date from Perl should be something like my $date = strftime("%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime);.

You'll surely want your script to work in 2105 too, so you'd better use four-digit years via %Y instead of %y :)

If you fix the dates in your guestlog table you'll obtain what you're looking for, the query is right.

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