List of entries prior to last entry(s)

Anyone?
uuuuhghghg, this is so stupid. I’m wasting my time.
The Docs aren’t helping, the forum isn’t helping.
How am I suppose to get this done?

Let me trying something else…
How would you set a variable to the date of the last post?

like this?
<?php
$last_post_date = get_the_time(‘F jS, Y’);
?>

query_posts(‘showposts=5&offset=1’);

something like this will not work because I will not know how many to offset. There could be 1 or there could be 5 posts made on the last entry date.

screw it. This is the best I can come up with on my own
and it doesn’t do a damn thing. Unless I get any replies then this is the end of my wordpress experience. All this hard work I’ve put into designing this blog and now I have to trash the whole thing and disappoint the person I was working on it for. Had a very nice site going too.

<ul>
<?php
$post_month = the_date('m','','', FALSE);
$post_year = the_date('Y','','', FALSE);
$post_day = the_date('d','','', FALSE);
?>

<?php query_posts("year=$post_year&monthnum=$post_month&day=$post_day&order=DESC"); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>			 

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?><br /><span><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> - <?php wp_link_pages(); ?> <?php comments_number(__('<strong>0</strong> Comments'), __('<strong>1</strong> Comment'), __('<strong>%</strong> Comments')); ?></span></a></li>

<?php endif; ?>
</ul>

blah

Ok, so I’m pretty sure I just figured this out. It is working so far. Thanks to the 0 replies.
I knew that if I could figure out the total number of posts made on the last post date, then I could just set the ‘offset=$number_of_posts”. Then, this would enable me to show a list of previous entries prior to the last posting date.
See this topic on how to get the total number of posts made on the last posting date:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/115069?replies=2

Then… adding this will create a list of 3 entries prior to last posting date.
So the whole thing looks like this:

<ul>
<?php
$post = $posts[0]; // Hack
if (is_day()) {
$likedate = 'Y-m-d ';
}
$count = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_date LIKE '" . get_the_time($likedate) . "%' AND post_date_gmt < '" . current_time('mysql', TRUE) . "' AND post_status = 'publish'");
?>

<?php query_posts("showposts=3&offset=$count"); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?><br /><span><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> - <?php wp_link_pages(); ?> <?php comments_number(__('<strong>0</strong> Comments'), __('<strong>1</strong> Comment'), __('<strong>%</strong> Comments')); ?></span></a></li>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>

Have no idea how getting $count number works, doesn’t read very logical to me, but it works.

So, thanks to me and the totally irrelevant support topic I was able to stumble upon; I figured it out.