Users That Actively Request Confirmation Messages Problem

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+----------------+----------+
| Column Name    | Type     |
+----------------+----------+
| user_id        | int      |
| time_stamp     | datetime |
+----------------+----------+
user_id is the primary key for this table.
Each row contains information about the signup time for the user with ID user_id.

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+----------------+----------+
| Column Name    | Type     |
+----------------+----------+
| user_id        | int      |
| time_stamp     | datetime |
| action         | ENUM     |
+----------------+----------+
(user_id, time_stamp) is the primary key for this table.
user_id is a foreign key with a reference to the Signups table.
action is an ENUM of the type ('confirmed', 'timeout')
Each row of this table indicates that the user with ID user_id requested a confirmation message at time_stamp and that confirmation message was either confirmed ('confirmed') or expired without confirming ('timeout').

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Signups table:
+---------+---------------------+
| user_id | time_stamp          |
+---------+---------------------+
| 3       | 2020-03-21 10:16:13 |
| 7       | 2020-01-04 13:57:59 |
| 2       | 2020-07-29 23:09:44 |
| 6       | 2020-12-09 10:39:37 |
+---------+---------------------+

Confirmations table:
+---------+---------------------+-----------+
| user_id | time_stamp          | action    |
+---------+---------------------+-----------+
| 3       | 2021-01-06 03:30:46 | timeout   |
| 3       | 2021-01-06 03:37:45 | timeout   |
| 7       | 2021-06-12 11:57:29 | confirmed |
| 7       | 2021-06-13 11:57:30 | confirmed |
| 2       | 2021-01-22 00:00:00 | confirmed |
| 2       | 2021-01-23 00:00:00 | timeout   |
| 6       | 2021-10-23 14:14:14 | confirmed |
| 6       | 2021-10-24 14:14:13 | timeout   |
+---------+---------------------+-----------+

Result table
+---------+
| user_id |
+---------+
| 2       |
| 3       |
| 6       |
+---------+

User 2 requested two messages within exactly 24 hours of each other, so we include them.
User 3 requested two messages within 6 minutes and 59 seconds of each other, so we include them.
User 6 requested two messages within 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds of each other, so we include them.
User 7 requested two messages within 24 hours and 1 second of each other, so we exclude them from the answer.

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select distinct c1.user_id
from Confirmations c1
join Confirmations c2
on c1.user_id = c2.user_id and timestampdiff(second, c2.time_stamp, c1.time_stamp) <= 86400
and timestampdiff(second, c2.time_stamp, c1.time_stamp) > 0