Making post date linkable to posts from that date

I am a frustrated pixie... as this must be easy but I can not find anything on the web with how to do it.

This is currently in my head, on a local machine and on random scraps of paper -- so no weblink.

I am wanting to produce a listing of events ( occurrences) in columns.

The first column would have the post date... the second the occurrence,.... the third etc....

And I want to make the post date linkable to show other events that also happened on that date. In a similar way to the way the Archive widget displays posts for a month...or a tag would for similar tagged posts...


I have tried loads of variations on this theme.

<span class="event">"><?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></span>

But I just can's seem to get the link syntax

<a href="<?php echo get_day_link('', ''); ?>"

to work on a local test machine. ( least I think this is where it is going wrong).

Any thoughts, I even thought of using permalinks... but no luck here either.

Much appreciated in advance

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