Re: Formatting current_time output

Charles H. Woloszynski <chw@clearmetrix.com>

From: "Charles H. Woloszynski" <chw@clearmetrix.com>

To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

Cc: Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net>, Postgres SQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>

Date: 2002-10-03T15:22:48Z

Lists: pgsql-sql

On 7.2.2, you can use

select to_char(now(), 'HH12:MI AM');

(using current_time raises an error, but now() works fine).

Charlie

Josh Berkus wrote:

>Thomas,
>
>  
>
>>SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'HH:MI AM') FROM DUAL; -- Oracle
>>SELECT TIME_FORMAT(current_time,'%l:%i %p');  -- MySQL
>>
>>Returned:   10:58 AM
>>
>>I've found lpad(current_time,5); which gets me 1/3 of the way.
>>Is there a function I haven't found?
>>    
>>
>
>Um, what's wrong with:
>SELECT to_char(current_time, 'HH12:MI AM');
>?
>
>(See "Formatting Functions" under "Functions and Operators" in the
>User's Guide)
>
>-Josh Berkus
>
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