Re: Hour difference?

I am already using Time for time fields (i.e. timestamp fields without
the date part) in my database, are you saying this doesn't work???


BTJ

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 17:55, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 16:09:43 +0200,
>   Bjørn T Johansen <btj@havleik.no> wrote:
> > I need to compute the difference of Time fields, in the format HHMM. Is
> > it possible to do the math in the Select?
>
> Despite what it says in the documentation, you can't use that format
> for the type time.
> If timestamps will work for you, you can use to_timestamp to convert
> to a timestamps and then subtract them to get an interval.
> Another option would be to massage the strings to use a : separator
> between the hours and minutes fields and then cast the strings to times.
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