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Why do mailings have two "start" dates?
December 10, 2012, 02:05:40 am
Why do mailings have two "start" dates?

mysql> SELECT DISTINCT civicrm_mailing.id AS id, civicrm_mailing.subject AS
civicrm_mailing_subject, civicrm_mailing_job.start_date AS
civicrm_mailing_job_start_date FROM civicrm_mailing civicrm_mailing LEFT JOIN
civicrm_mailing_job civicrm_mailing_job ON civicrm_mailing.id =
civicrm_mailing_job.mailing_id WHERE (( (civicrm_mailing.subject LIKE
'%Bulletin%' ESCAPE '\\') AND (civicrm_mailing_job.is_test = '0') )) ORDER BY
civicrm_mailing_job_start_date DESC LIMIT 10 OFFSET 0;

+------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+

| id   | civicrm_mailing_subject                           
                                                   
           | civicrm_mailing_job_start_date |

+------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------+

| 5112 | Voscur VCS e-bulletin - 28 November 2012: All change at City Hall 
                                               |
2012-11-28 17:34:07            |

| 5112 | Voscur VCS e-bulletin - 28 November 2012: All change at City Hall 
                                               |
2012-11-28 17:34:03            |

| 4852 | Voscur VCS e-bulletin - 14 November 2012: One more day to spread the
word - Thursday is voting day!                | 2012-11-14 17:19:05
           |

| 4852 | Voscur VCS e-bulletin - 14 November 2012: One more day to spread the
word - Thursday is voting day!                | 2012-11-14 17:19:02
           |

| 4562 | Voscur VCS e-bulletin - 31 October 2012: Bristol's countdown to the
mayor and PCC elections, help spread the word! | 2012-10-31 16:49:11     
     |

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Re: Why do mailings have two "start" dates?
December 10, 2012, 09:15:55 am

there are two start dates:

1. When was the mailing scheduled to start (in civicrm_mailing)

2. When did the mailing actually start (in civicrm_mailing_job)

due to various reasons 1 and 2 will rarely be exactly the same, primarily since 2 is driven by a cron job and depends on how many other jobs are ahead of it, cron schedule etc

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