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Re: Weeks elapsed to Months elapsed conversion


  • From: "Fernando Hevia" <fhevia(at)ip-tel(dot)com(dot)ar>
  • To: "'Allan Kamau'" <allank(at)sanbi(dot)ac(dot)za>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Weeks elapsed to Months elapsed conversion
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 13:22:08 -0300
  • Message-id: <002501c8c271$4e46e0a0$8f01010a@iptel.com.ar> <text/plain>

> 
> Hi all,
> I have a simple question (tried googling but found no 
> answers). How do I convert weeks elapsed into months elapsed?
> I have data that contains duration in weeks (without any 
> other date values such as year and so on) for example a week 
> value of 14 and I would like to convert the 14 weeks to 3 
> months (some lose of accuracy expected).
> Expected tests may be:
> 14 weeks yields 3 months.
> 1 weeks yields 0 months.
> 

If accuracy isnt a issue probably floor() could suite you:

months=select floor(weeks/4);

Regards,
Fernando.




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