You probably want SEC_TO_TIME:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Date_and_time_functions.html
SELECT a as start, b as end, SEC_TO_TIME(end - start) FROM table
Eamon Daly
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From: Dirk Bremer (NISC) [EMAIL
Here is an example using sec_to_time. Note that the results are inconsistent
and sometimes inaccurate. It seems that when the difference is less than one
minute, the result is correct, when it is over one minute, the result is
incorrect.
select ident,
transfer_start,
transfer_end,
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Subject: Re: Date/Time Difference Calculations
Here is an example using sec_to_time. Note
, 2004 14:29
Subject: Re: Date/Time Difference Calculations
Here is an example using sec_to_time. Note that the results are
inconsistent
and sometimes inaccurate. It seems that when the difference is less than
one
minute, the result is correct, when it is over one minute, the result
11, 2004 14:50
Subject: Re: Date/Time Difference Calculations
select
sec_to_time(time_to_sec(transfer_end)-time_to_sec(transfer_start));
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Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 14:54
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I didn't see where these were 4.1+ function so I think it will work. I
refer you
Hi,
Your main problem will be in storage - datetime fields are only down to the
second, so you will have to store the times as integers, and then do your
own arithmetic on them.
If you stored the time as ('unix time' * 100) + hundreths, then you could
probably still do some arithmetic using the
