A date field contains both the date and time. If you only want to display the time
use a call to to_char(my_date,'HH:MM:SS'). If for some reason you REALLY only want to
store the time of day, I would store the number of seconds since midnight in a number.
for example 6:32.35pm would be (18*60*60) + (32*60)+35 or 66755. This would allow the
user to sort by the time. A third way would be to use a varchar2 field and store the
time as HHMMSS or using my example above '183235'.
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Hi,
Developers need a datatype which only stores the time portion of date i.e.
HH24:MI:SS.......
Any ideas how to create this data type.
Thanks
Harvinder
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