>> I have a possibly stupid question- I'm doing some time calculations yielding >> intervals, and for my purposes I need to convert the interval(say, "1 day 8 >> hours") into (floating point) hours. While there's a plethora of handy >> date_extract functionality and the like, I need a conversion. >> >> Any suggestions on how to accompish this? Simpler the better, of course. > > extract(epoch from some_interval)/3600
[slaps head] I swear, I studied the date/time sections of the manual for quite some time...really...Siiiigh :-) Thanks Tomasz! Brett ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org