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Home > Forums > Project and Data Management > Data Management Programming Tools > Informix solutions Forum

susbtracting time and counting minutes elapsed

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cesaru (TechnicalUser)

23 May 10 18:31

Hello,

I'm trying to get a total of how many minutes an assigment too to be completed

userid            carlosh
Assignment        12345
start_dtim        2010-05-23 16:02:17
end_dtim          2010-05-23 16:27:53

userid            emilyc
Assignment        12346
start_dtim        2010-05-23 16:13:17
end_dtim          2010-05-23 16:29:55

userid            emilyc
Assignment        12347
start_dtim        2010-05-23 16:30:17
end_dtim          2010-05-23 16:35:55

So basically I need to look like

carlosh 1 assigment   24.72 Minutes
emilyc  2 assigment   21.00 Minutes

I tried doing something simple likes
select usert_id,count(Assignment),sum( end_dtim-start_dtim)

which works but the results for time I get is something like :0 00:25:36
or if the assignments goes over couple of hours it will be like 0 02:25:36 or even it addes days like
3 01:45:36 (3 days one hours and 45 minutes)

How can I convert the results in minutes.

I've been pulling my hair for this. I appreciate any help.

thanks,

olded (Programmer)

26 May 10 22:56

I had a similar problem only I needed the number of seconds between 2 datetimes. I wrote a stored procedure that returns the number of seconds. You will probably have to modify the interval. The declaration would be probably be something like:

# UNTESTED
DEFINE int_sec INTERVAL MINUTE TO MINUTE;

CODE

-- This function returns the number of seconds between datetime dt1 and dt2.
-- change to character first because the interval to integer conversion fails.
CREATE PROCEDURE xint_in_sec(dt1 DATETIME YEAR TO SECOND, dt2 DATETIME YEAR
TO SECOND) RETURNING INTEGER;
   DEFINE int_sec INTERVAL SECOND(9) TO SECOND;
   DEFINE xchar CHAR(20);
   DEFINE xint INTEGER;

   LET int_sec = dt2 - dt1;  -- get the interval
   LET xchar = int_sec; -- change to char
   LET xint = xchar; -- change to integer

RETURN xint;
END PROCEDURE;

cesaru (TechnicalUser)

13 Sep 10 18:05

thanks.. I think I got it.

(a.end_dtim-a.start_dtim)::interval minute(9) to minute::char(10)::int) As elapsed_time

hope it helps someone.

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