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I have an interval field which is used to calculate total hours.

At present it outputs as days hours minutes

Is there any way to output as total hours

I have tried to_char(field,' HH:MM')

but I get wierd results like -51 or -5
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Nov 23 '05 #1
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:58:44 +0100
mi**@bristolrec cc.co.uk (mike) wrote:
I have an interval field which is used to calculate total hours.
At present it outputs as days hours minutes
Is there any way to output as total hours
I have tried to_char(field,' HH:MM')
but I get wierd results like -51 or -5


From the top of my head i think could probably to do something like
this:

extract(epoch from your_time_inter val)/3600
It basically finds the "age" of your interval in seconds. The /3600 is
to find the result in hours.

If you for instance want the result with just one decimal like xxxx.y
then you can do it like this:

round(extract(e poch from your_time_inter val)/360)/10

I hope this helps.
Best regards
Jesper K. Pedersen
Nov 23 '05 #2
mike <mi**@bristolre ccc.co.uk> writes:
I have an interval field which is used to calculate total hours.
At present it outputs as days hours minutes
Is there any way to output as total hours


You could always EXTRACT(EPOCH ...) to get total seconds and then
divide. I am not sure whether EXTRACT(HOUR ...) would give the
same answer, or just the hours portion of the normal printout.
But anyway, see EXTRACT.

regards, tom lane

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