这里是我的简化。假设时间间隔

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不要重叠，xa<xb和ya<yb可以简化处理。上述条件可以简单检查。然后你会得到

      ya       yb
      |--------|
xa |--|xb
   |----|
         |----|
ya > xa => return ya - xa < xb - xa
else    => return xa < yb

正如您可能注意到的，第二个间隔仅在xa>=ya的情况下相关。

你可以试试这个：

//custom date for example
$d1 = new DateTime("2012-07-08");
$d2 = new DateTime("2012-07-11");
$d3 = new DateTime("2012-07-08");
$d4 = new DateTime("2012-07-15");

//create a date period object
$interval = new DateInterval('P1D');
$daterange = iterator_to_array(new DatePeriod($d1, $interval, $d2));
$daterange1 = iterator_to_array(new DatePeriod($d3, $interval, $d4));
array_map(function($v) use ($daterange1) { if(in_array($v, $daterange1)) print "Bingo!";}, $daterange);

答案对我来说太简单了，所以我创建了一个更通用的动态SQL语句，用于检查某人是否有重叠的日期。

SELECT DISTINCT T1.EmpID
FROM Table1 T1
INNER JOIN Table2 T2 ON T1.EmpID = T2.EmpID 
    AND T1.JobID <> T2.JobID
    AND (
        (T1.DateFrom >= T2.DateFrom AND T1.dateFrom <= T2.DateTo) 
        OR (T1.DateTo >= T2.DateFrom AND T1.DateTo <= T2.DateTo)
        OR (T1.DateFrom < T2.DateFrom AND T1.DateTo IS NULL)
    )
    AND NOT (T1.DateFrom = T2.DateFrom)

public static class NumberExtensionMethods
    {
        public static Boolean IsBetween(this Int64 value, Int64 Min, Int64 Max)
        {
            if (value >= Min && value <= Max) return true;
            else return false;
        }

        public static Boolean IsBetween(this DateTime value, DateTime Min, DateTime Max)
        {
            Int64 numricValue = value.Ticks;
            Int64 numericStartDate = Min.Ticks;
            Int64 numericEndDate = Max.Ticks;

            if (numricValue.IsBetween(numericStartDate, numericEndDate) )
            {
                return true;
            }

            return false;
        }
    }

public static Boolean IsOverlap(DateTime startDate1, DateTime endDate1, DateTime startDate2, DateTime endDate2)
        {
            Int64 numericStartDate1 = startDate1.Ticks;
            Int64 numericEndDate1 = endDate1.Ticks;
            Int64 numericStartDate2 = startDate2.Ticks;
            Int64 numericEndDate2 = endDate2.Ticks;

            if (numericStartDate2.IsBetween(numericStartDate1, numericEndDate1) ||
                numericEndDate2.IsBetween(numericStartDate1, numericEndDate1) ||
                numericStartDate1.IsBetween(numericStartDate2, numericEndDate2) ||
                numericEndDate1.IsBetween(numericStartDate2, numericEndDate2))
            {
                return true;
            }

            return false;
        } 


if (IsOverlap(startdate1, enddate1, startdate2, enddate2))
            {
                Console.WriteLine("IsOverlap");
            }

这是一段神奇的代码：

 var isOverlapping =  ((A == null || D == null || A <= D) 
            && (C == null || B == null || C <= B)
            && (A == null || B == null || A <= B)
            && (C == null || D == null || C <= D));

哪里

A->1启动B->1结束C->2启动D->2结束

证据查看此测试控制台代码要点。

适合我的紧凑公式

class ValidityRuleRange {
        private final Date from;
        private final Date to;
    ...
    private boolean isOverlap(ValidityRuleRange vrr) {
        int c1 = from.compareTo(vrr.getTo());
        int c2 = to.compareTo(vrr.getFrom());
        return c1 == 0 || c2 == 0 || c1 + c2 == 0;
    }