I'm hoping someone can tell me whether this is restricting to once-per-day or once-per-24hrs
Looks like it's 24 hours:
mysql> select sysdate(), sysdate() + interval 1 day;
+---------------------+----------------------------+
| sysdate() | sysdate() + interval 1 day |
+---------------------+----------------------------+
| 2011-03-21 15:50:56 | 2011-03-22 15:50:56 |
+---------------------+----------------------------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)
If you need "tomorrow", as in, tonight at one minute past 23:59, consider chomping down things to plain old DATE
's resolution:
mysql> select DATE(sysdate()), DATE(sysdate()) + interval 1 day;
+-----------------+----------------------------------+
| DATE(sysdate()) | DATE(sysdate()) + interval 1 day |
+-----------------+----------------------------------+
| 2011-03-21 | 2011-03-22 |
+-----------------+----------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
By just considering dates instead of times, your cutoff will effectively expire at midnight. Watch out, though -- you'll then be at the mercy of the time on your MySQL server, which might differ from the time on your application server if they are on different machines.