记住解决方案的一个简单方法是最小（结束）>最大（开始）

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);

在Microsoft SQL SERVER中-SQL函数

CREATE FUNCTION IsOverlapDates 
(
    @startDate1 as datetime,
    @endDate1 as datetime,
    @startDate2 as datetime,
    @endDate2 as datetime
)
RETURNS int
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Overlap as int
SET @Overlap = (SELECT CASE WHEN  (
        (@startDate1 BETWEEN @startDate2 AND @endDate2) -- caters for inner and end date outer
        OR
        (@endDate1 BETWEEN @startDate2 AND @endDate2) -- caters for inner and start date outer
        OR
        (@startDate2 BETWEEN @startDate1 AND @endDate1) -- only one needed for outer range where dates are inside.
        ) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
    )
    RETURN @Overlap

END
GO

--Execution of the above code
DECLARE @startDate1 as datetime
DECLARE @endDate1 as datetime
DECLARE @startDate2 as datetime
DECLARE @endDate2 as datetime
DECLARE @Overlap as int
SET @startDate1 = '2014-06-01 01:00:00' 
SET @endDate1 =   '2014-06-01 02:00:00'
SET @startDate2 = '2014-06-01 01:00:00' 
SET @endDate2 =   '2014-06-01 01:30:00'

SET @Overlap = [dbo].[IsOverlapDates]  (@startDate1, @endDate1, @startDate2, @endDate2)

SELECT Overlap = @Overlap

对于ruby，我也发现了这一点：

class Interval < ActiveRecord::Base

  validates_presence_of :start_date, :end_date

  # Check if a given interval overlaps this interval    
  def overlaps?(other)
    (start_date - other.end_date) * (other.start_date - end_date) >= 0
  end

  # Return a scope for all interval overlapping the given interval, including the given interval itself
  named_scope :overlapping, lambda { |interval| {
    :conditions => ["id <> ? AND (DATEDIFF(start_date, ?) * DATEDIFF(?, end_date)) >= 0", interval.id, interval.end_date, interval.start_date]
  }}

end

在这里找到它，解释很好->http://makandracards.com/makandra/984-test-if-two-date-ranges-overlap-in-ruby-or-rails

最简单的

最简单的方法是使用精心设计的专用库进行日期时间工作。

someInterval.overlaps( anotherInterval )

java.time&ThreeTen额外

业务中最好的是内置在Java8和更高版本中的java.time框架。添加ThreeTen Extra项目，该项目用额外的类来补充java.time，特别是我们这里需要的Interval类。

至于这个问题上的语言不可知标签，两个项目的源代码都可以在其他语言中使用（注意它们的许可证）。

间隔

org.threeten.extra.Interval类很方便，但需要日期时间瞬间（java.time.Instant对象），而不是仅日期值。因此，我们继续使用UTC中的一天的第一刻来表示日期。

Instant start = Instant.parse( "2016-01-01T00:00:00Z" );
Instant stop = Instant.parse( "2016-02-01T00:00:00Z" );

创建一个间隔来表示该时间跨度。

Interval interval_A = Interval.of( start , stop );

我们也可以用开始时刻加上持续时间来定义间隔。

Instant start_B = Instant.parse( "2016-01-03T00:00:00Z" );
Interval interval_B = Interval.of( start_B , Duration.of( 3 , ChronoUnit.DAYS ) );

比较和测试重叠很容易。

Boolean overlaps = interval_A.overlaps( interval_B );

您可以将“间隔”与另一个“间隔”或“即时”进行比较：

邻接，邻接包含外壳等于在之后是之前重叠，重叠

所有这些都使用半开放的方法来定义一段时间，其中开始是包容性的，结束是排他性的。

我认为，在以下情况下，两个范围重叠就足够了：

(StartDate1 <= EndDate2) and (StartDate2 <= EndDate1)