Re: Formatting count of seconds to date format using SQL?

A copy of this was sent to Jan-Helge Bergesen <jhb_at_protek.no> (if that email address didn't require changing) On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:28:27 +0100, you wrote:

>Hello!
>
>Is there a way to format a count of seconds into a format like 'DD
>HH:MI:SS' ?
>
>I'm a bit frustrated here...

a count of seconds since when? If you know when the seconds are from it is as easy as:

select to_char( WHENCE + (SECONDS * (1/24/60/60)), 'DD HH24:MI:SS' ) from dual;

If it is the numer of seconds since midnight for example:

  1* select to_char( trunc(sysdate) + (50029*(1/24/60/60)), 'DD HH24:MI:SS' ) from dual
tkyte_at_8i>

TO_CHAR(TRU

will get it for you.

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