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Formatting current_time output

Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net> — 2002-10-03T14:46:19Z

Hi.

Anyone have any tips on how I can approximate the following:

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?

TIA
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Re: Formatting current_time output

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> — 2002-10-03T15:03:06Z

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

Re: Formatting current_time output

Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net> — 2002-10-03T15:10:03Z

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, 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');

Not a thing!  Except that I think you mean 'current_date'.  ;-)

Cheers Josh (and thanks alot)...

BTW the JOIN you sent the other day worked fine.
Thanks again,
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Re: Formatting current_time output

Charles H. Woloszynski <chw@clearmetrix.com> — 2002-10-03T15:22:48Z

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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Re: Formatting current_time output

Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz> — 2002-10-03T15:28:01Z

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:46:19AM -0400, Thomas Good wrote:
> 
> SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'HH:MI AM') FROM DUAL; -- Oracle
> SELECT TIME_FORMAT(current_time,'%l:%i %p');  -- MySQL

  SELECT TO_CHAR(now(),'HH:MI AM');             -- PostgreSQL

      :-)
      
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Re: Formatting current_time output

Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> — 2002-10-03T15:28:35Z

SELECT to_char(now(), 'HH24:MI AM');
(in 7.2.1)

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