Time Conversion Options

[Enya]

Hello.

I am tyring to covert a time shown as 001200 (12 hours) to 720 mins. I have tried the following but get errors when executing:

(MTTD)>=TO_DATE('000000','HH24:MI:SS').

I have also tried .
MTTD = to_date('000000','HH24:MI:SS') =trunc(sysdate,'MM')*24*60; and neither is working.


What am I doing incorrectly?

Thanks in advance.

[burleson]

Hi Enya,

You can use a huige number of display transformation for times:

Please Read:

http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_nls_date_format_sysdate.htm

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>> (MTTD)>=TO_DATE('000000','HH24:MI:SS').

CODE

IF TO_DATE(MTTD)>=TO_DATE('23:11:01','HH24:MI:SS').

You are defining MTTD as a DATE datatype.

You would need a to_char to see the contents of MTTD!

Instead of converting the string to a date, do it the other way around!