Re: Interval Formatting -> Convert to timestamp

On 2008-08-21 11:09, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> I want to find out if there's a method to change this
> select to_char('1 day 09:18:42.37996'::interval,'HH24:MI:SS')
> to something like
> 24+9(hours) = 33:18:42 instead of returning It as 09:19:42

That's because 1 day doesn't always have 24 hours, because there are
daylight saving times. 1 month can also have various number of days or
hours.

If you want 1 day to be always 24 hours then:
select date_part('day', t)*'24h'::interval + t-date_trunc('day',t)
from (select '1 day 09:18:42.37996'::interval as t) as s;

It will not work for intervals with months. I'm not sure for negative ones.

Regards
Tometzky
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