MS Access is really funny. They store their dates in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format, no matter how you think it looks in the table. And you can't simply write that format into the date field. :(

I ran into a similar issue a while back when trying to write a date to an MS Access database. I ended up having to use {ts '2001-01-01 23:59:59'} to pull it off. Granted, your issue may be unrelated, but if you're looking for dates, you may have to write them too.

So, anyway, back to your question: I tried this out earlier, and it should suit your needs, but is most likely a quick hack:

WHERE field BETWEEN #1/1/$year# AND #12/31/$year#

Update: While sifting through the Cheetah Book (Programming the Perl DBI), I noticed that on page 293 it says this:

Similar escape sequences are defined for other date/time types. Here's the full set:

{d 'YYYY-MM-DD'} - date
{t 'HH:MM:SS'} - time
{ts 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'} - timestamp
{ts 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFFFFFF'} - timestamp
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Further research at that dratted MSDN does indeed indicated that that is the full set

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