Time difference using MySQL - end time after mid night not working - mysql

Question

I am trying to figure out whether my current time falls between two given times. It is working fine, unless if my end time falls after the mid night, while my start time is during the day.
For example, if I have:
Start: 17:00
End: 03:00
Current: 18:30
It then will not show up.
I do understand where the logic is going wrong, but I can't find a fix for it, logically and conceptually. I mean, you could claim that 06:30 PM does fall between 05 PM and 03 AM, but then 03 AM of the next day!
How do we overcome that problem?
Here is my query below:
SELECT * FROM products
JOIN restaurants
ON (products.Venue = restaurants.name)
WHERE products.Drink_Category = Beer
AND restaurants.Area = Racks
AND (
HOUR(18:30) >= HOUR(products.Start) -- here is where the time is set
AND HOUR(18:30) <= HOUR(products.End) --and here is the end
)
ORDER BY products.Price/products.Multiple ASC;
I have as well tried BETWEEN query, and yet it does not work for those specific cases.

Answer 1

Basically, when products.End is smaller than products.Start, just add 24 to account for the day wrapping. E.g.
SELECT * FROM products
JOIN restaurants
ON (products.Venue = restaurants.name)
WHERE products.Drink_Category = Beer
AND restaurants.Area = Racks
AND (
HOUR(18:30) >= HOUR(products.Start) -- here is where the time is set
AND HOUR(18:30) <= CASE
WHEN products.End<products.Start
THEN HOUR(products.End)+24
ELSE HOUR(products.End) END --and here is the end
)
ORDER BY products.Price/products.Multiple ASC;

Answer 2

you have 2 way:
1- use complete date time value in your Condition like this:
Select * FROM table_event where ((SaleDate >= #FromDate) AND (SaleDate < #ToDate)) Order by SaleDate DESC
2- you can change your condition in back end, if your end time go to tomorrow you must write another condition like this:
(HOUR(18:30) >= HOUR(products.Start) AND HOUR(23:59) <= HOUR(products.End) )
OR
( HOUR(00:00) >= HOUR(products.Start) AND HOUR(3:00) <= HOUR(products.End) )