Re: Format intervall as hours/minutes etc

[Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>]

Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak(at)officenet(dot)no> schrieb:

> Hi all. Any hint on how to format this interval as number of hour/seconds etc?
> select age('2007-09-22 17:00'::timestamp, '2000-02-20 18:00'::timestamp);
>               age
> -------------------------------
>  7 years 7 mons 1 day 23:00:00

You can use extract(epoch, from ...) like this:

test=*# select extract(epoch from '2007-09-22 17:00'::timestamp) - extract (epoch from '2000-02-20 18:00'::timestamp);
 ?column?
-----------
 239407200
(1 row)

Now you can calculate the hours and so on.

Andreas
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