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Question Subtracting dates in ACCESS

Hello,
I am trying to find out whether or not something is past due in SQL view, using MS Access 2000. I have a table with rentals, which includes the attributes rental_date and due_date. I need to find out from the Time table, which has the attribute Days, which movies were returnd late.
I have now:
Where (rentals.due_date-rentals.rental_date)>Days

I am having trouble because it is comparing two different data types--> (xx-jan-1999) and integer days

Sorry this is so long-winded, but I hope someone can understand this and answer.
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where datediff("d",rentals.due_date,rentals.rental_date)>Days

or perhaps

where datediff("d",rentals.rental_date,rentals.due_date)>Days

i think the earlier date has to come first in order to get a positive difference
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