Re: Rounding Time

you can use the ROUND-function in PL/SQL e. g.

select to_char( round(sysdate, 'HH24'), 'DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI:SS') from dual;

for the nearest hour of the current time.

louster_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> I'm trying to round a time to the nearest hour on a 24 hr clock. I'm
> currently trying something like:
>
> TO_CHAR(L.LOGIN_DATE,'fmHH24')+(TRUNC(TO_CHAR
> (L.LOGIN_DATE,'fmMI')/30)) || ':00' as "Rounded"
>
> But the problem with this is 11:31pm rounds up to 24:00 but 1:29am
> rounds to 0:00. I can't have both 24:00 and 0:00. I'd like 11:31pm to
> round to 0:00. Any ideas?
>
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Received on Thu Jul 13 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT