Hi,
Thanks for the big help.
Finally I got it worked as expected and the sql statement below to return the 
format as: #device local time = MON JUL 28 10:57:30 2008.
Another question that I have is to set this select statement in the variable so 
I can repeated to print out the variable again and again in different section 
without repeat the long select statement
I would like to set the result of below statement to variable so I print it 
again without repeating the long select statement. Would you please help.
Thanks,
JP

 select '#device local time = ' ||
 (case strftime('%w', d) when '0' then 'SUN' when '1' then 'MON' when '2' then 
'TUE' when '3' then 'WED' when '4' then 'THUR' when '5' then 'FRI' when '6' 
then 'SAT' end)  || ' ' ||
(case strftime('%m', d) when '01' then 'JAN'  when '02' then 'FEB' when '03' 
then 'MAR' when '04' then 'APR' when '05' then 'MAY' when '06' then 'JUN' when 
'07' then 'JUL'  when '08' then 'AUG' when '09' then 'SEP' when '10' then 'OCT' 
when '11' then 'NOV'  when '12' then 'DEC' end) || ' ' ||
strftime('%d %H:%M:%S %Y', d,'localtime') || ', ' 
from (select CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as d)   ;



----- Original Message ----
From: Igor Tandetnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:21:26 PM
Subject: Re: [sqlite] Convert the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

"Joanne Pham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi all ,
> I have the following statement to convert the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP to
> format as
> TUE JULY 25 23:11:13 2008 but I got the empty string. Can you help me
> why the empty string is returned.
> Below is sql statement:
> select
> (case strftime('%w', d) when 0 then 'SUN' when 1 then 'MON’ when 2
> then ‘TUE’ when 3 then ‘WED’ when 4 then ‘THUR’ when 5 then ‘FRI’
> when 6 then ‘SAT’ end) || ‘ ‘ ||
> (case strftime('%m', d) when 1 then 'JAN' when 2 then ‘FEB’ when 3
> then ‘MAR’ when 4 then ‘APR’ when 5 then ‘MAY’ when 6 then ‘JUN’ when
> 7 then ‘JUL’ when 8 then “AUG’ when 9 then ‘SEP’ when 10 then ‘OCT’
> when 11 then ‘NOV’ when 12 then 'DEC' end)
>>> ' ' ||
> strftime('%d %H:%M:%S %Y', d)
> from (select CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as d);

Change strftime('%w', d) to CAST(strftime('%w', d) as INTEGER), and 
similarly for strftime('%m', d). strftime returns a string, which 
doesn't match any condition in the CASE statement, so the statement 
produces NULL, and then the whole expression becomes NULL. To avoid 
this, the result of strftime needs to be converted to integer.

And fix smart quotes ‘’ to plain apostrophe '

Igor Tandetnik 


      
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