On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:44:07PM +0500, rihad wrote:
> Hi, I have two columns start_time & stop_time declared as "TIME". I'd
> like to compute the difference between the two times in seconds, all in db:
>
> SELECT
> (CAST(stop_time AS SECONDS) + 86400 - CAST(start_time AS SECONDS))
> % 86400;
At a guess I'd say you should simply subtract the two (ie stop_time -
start_time) and then use extract() to pull the seconds out.
Have a nice day,
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