我遇到过这样的情况，我们有日期而不是日期时间，并且日期只能在开始/结束时重叠。示例如下：

（绿色是当前间隔，蓝色块是有效间隔，红色块是重叠间隔）。

我将Ian Nelson的答案改编为以下解决方案：

   (startB <= startA && endB > startA)
|| (startB >= startA && startB < endA)

这匹配所有重叠情况，但忽略允许的重叠情况。

由于对于不同的语言和环境有多种答案，这里有一个标准ANSISQL的答案。

在标准SQL中，它非常简单

(StartDate1, EndDate1) overlaps (StartDate2, EndDate2)

假设所有四列都是DATE或TIMESTAMP列。如果两个范围至少有一天相同（假设DATE值），则返回true

（但并非所有DBMS产品都支持此功能）

在PostgreSQL中，使用日期范围也很容易测试是否包含

daterange(StartDate1, EndDate1) @> daterange(StartDate2, EndDate2)

如果第二个范围完全包含在第一个范围中（与“重叠”不同），则上述值返回真

if (StartDate1 > StartDate2) swap(StartDate, EndDate);

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

这是我的Java解决方案，它也适用于无限区间

private Boolean overlap (Timestamp startA, Timestamp endA,
                         Timestamp startB, Timestamp endB)
{
    return (endB == null || startA == null || !startA.after(endB))
        && (endA == null || startB == null || !endA.before(startB));
}

简单的解决方案：

compare the two dates: 
    A = the one with smaller start date, B = the one with bigger start date
if(A.end < B.start)
    return false
return true

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