How to find the time difference with respect to date in Oracle? - oracle

I want to find the time difference between the value in the column of type Date and the fixed time of that particular date.
Consider,
value in column - 4/16/2011 4:00:19 PM
Fixed time as - 3:00:00 PM
I am expecting the answer as 1hr 0min 19sec ago. Whatever the type I'm ok with it.
Thanks

Since you don't care what data type is returned, I'd probably cast to a timestamp so that you can get an interval day to second returned.
SQL> select cast( sysdate as timestamp ) from dual
2 ;
CAST(SYSDATEASTIMESTAMP)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
15-MAR-15 04.05.46.000000 PM
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 select cast( sysdate as timestamp ) -
2 cast( trunc(sysdate) + interval '15' hour as timestamp )
3* from dual
4 /
CAST(SYSDATEASTIMESTAMP)-CAST(TRUNC(SYSDATE)+INTERVAL'15'HOURASTIMESTAMP)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+000000000 01:06:18.000000
If you want to return a string rather than an interval, you can use extract to extract data from the interval
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 select extract( hour from delta ) || ' hours, ' ||
2 extract( minute from delta ) || ' minutes, ' ||
3 extract( second from delta ) || ' seconds ago'
4 from (
5 select cast( sysdate as timestamp ) -
6 cast( trunc(sysdate) + interval '15' hour as timestamp ) delta
7 from dual
8* )
SQL> /
EXTRACT(HOURFROMDELTA)||'HOURS,'||EXTRACT(MINUTEFROMDELTA)||'MINUTES,'||EXTRACT(
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 hours, 10 minutes, 46 seconds ago

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Use EPOCH time for timestamp to get records within 1 minute

I was curious to see how in Oracle 12c you can take a timestamp datatype and convert the records into EPOCH time to make them a number and then use that number to find any records within that date column that are within 1 minute of each other (assuming the same day if needed, or simply any calculations within 1 minute).
I tried the following but got an ORA-01873: the leading precision of the interval is too small error.
select (sold_date - to_date('1970-01-01 00:00:00','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'))*86400 as epoch_sold_date from test1;
What is SOLD_DATE? For e.g. SYSDATE (function that returns DATE datatype), your code works OK.
SQL> select (sysdate
2 - to_date('1970-01-01 00:00:00','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
3 ) * 86400 as epoch_sold_date
4 from dual;
EPOCH_SOLD_DATE
---------------
1600807918
SQL>
As SOLD_DATE is a timestamp, but - it appears that fractions of a second aren't or special interest to you, cast it to DATE:
select (cast (systimestamp as date) --> this
- to_date('1970-01-01 00:00:00','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
) * 86400 as epoch_sold_date
from dual;
Saying that you get the same result for all rows: well, I don't, and you shouldn't either if SOLD_DATE differs.
SQL> with test (sold_date) as
2 (select timestamp '2020-09-22 00:00:00.000000' from dual union all
3 select timestamp '2015-03-18 00:00:00.000000' from dual
4 )
5 select sold_date,
6 (cast (sold_date as date)
7 - to_date('1970-01-01 00:00:00','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')
8 ) * 86400 as epoch_sold_date
9 from test;
SOLD_DATE EPOCH_SOLD_DATE
------------------------------ ---------------
22.09.20 00:00:00,000000000 1600732800
18.03.15 00:00:00,000000000 1426636800
SQL>
One more edit: when you subtract two timestamps, result is interval day to second. If you extract minutes from it, you get what you wanted:
SQL> with test (sold_date) as
2 (select timestamp '2020-09-22 10:15:00.000000' from dual union all
3 select timestamp '2015-03-18 08:05:00.000000' from dual
4 )
5 select sold_date,
6 lead(sold_date) over (order by sold_date) next_sold_date,
7 --
8 lead(sold_date) over (order by sold_date) - sold_date diff,
9 --
10 extract(day from lead(sold_date) over (order by sold_date) - sold_date) diff_mins
11 from test
12 order by sold_date;
SOLD_DATE NEXT_SOLD_DATE DIFF DIFF_MINS
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ----------
18.03.15 08:05:00,000000000 22.09.20 10:15:00,000000000 +000002015 02:10:00.000000000 2015
22.09.20 10:15:00,000000000
SQL>
In your case, you'd check whether extracted minutes value is larger than 1 (minute).
If you just want to see how many minutes are there between two timestamps, then
cast them to dates
subtract those dates (and you'll get number of days)
multiply it by 24 (as there are 24 hours in a day) and by 60 (as there are 60 minutes in an hour)
Something like this:
SQL> with test (date_1, date_2) as
2 (select timestamp '2020-09-22 10:15:00.000000',
3 timestamp '2020-09-22 08:05:00.000000' from dual
4 )
5 select (cast(date_1 as date) - cast(date_2 as date)) * 24 * 60 diff_minutes
6 from test;
DIFF_MINUTES
------------
130
SQL>
If you are just looking to compare dates and find rows that are within one minute of each other, you do not need to use epoch time. There are several solutions to this problem on this thread.

How to get the date difference between start date and end date in oracle as hours and minutes

I have a scenario in which for example,my start_date ='12-SEP-2018 00:01:00' and End_date ='13-SEP-2018 14:55:00' . The difference between the 2 dates must be found out in Hours and minutes like'12:20'. This must be achieved in oracle database. I tried using the following logic :
SELECT
24 * (to_date('2009-07-07 22:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD hh24:mi') - to_date(
'2009-07-07 19:30', 'YYYY-MM-DD hh24:mi')) diff_hours
FROM
dual;
I was able to get the hour difference but unable to get minutes along with it.
CREATE TABLE table_name ( start_date DATE, end_date DATE );
INSERT INTO table_name VALUES ( TIMESTAMP '2009-07-07 19:30:00', TIMESTAMP '2009-07-07 22:00:00' );
Then you can subtract one from the other and cast it to a DAY TO SECOND interval and then just EXTRACT the component parts of the time:
SELECT EXTRACT( DAY FROM difference ) AS days,
EXTRACT( HOUR FROM difference ) AS hours,
EXTRACT( MINUTE FROM difference ) AS minutes,
EXTRACT( SECOND FROM difference ) AS seconds
FROM (
SELECT ( end_date - start_date ) DAY TO SECOND AS difference
FROM table_name
);
Outputs:
DAYS | HOURS | MINUTES | SECONDS
---: | ----: | ------: | ------:
0 | 2 | 30 | 0
or you can use arithmetic to calculate the values:
SELECT TRUNC( 24 * ( end_date - start_date ) ) AS hours,
TRUNC( MOD( 24 * 60 * ( end_date - start_date ), 60 ) ) AS minutes,
ROUND( MOD( 24 * 60 * 60 * ( end_date - start_date ), 60 ) ) AS seconds
FROM table_name;
which outputs:
HOURS | MINUTES | SECONDS
----: | ------: | ------:
2 | 30 | 0
db<>fiddle here
Since you want a string value, an alternative based on your query attempt is to add the difference between your two date values (which is a numeric value, the number of days between them, including fractional days) to an arbitrary fixed date; and then convert the result of that to a string:
SELECT to_char(date '0001-01-01'
+ (to_date('2009-07-07 22:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD hh24:mi') - to_date( '2009-07-07 19:30', 'YYYY-MM-DD hh24:mi')),
'HH24:MI') as diff
FROM dual;
DIFF
-----
02:30
If the difference can exceed 24 hours then you need to decide how to report that; if you want to include days as a separate figure then you can still use this approach, but need to subtract one (if your fixed date is the first) from the difference before formatting as a string:
SELECT to_char(date '0001-01-01'
+ (to_date('2009-07-08 22:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD hh24:mi') - to_date( '2009-07-07 19:30', 'YYYY-MM-DD hh24:mi'))
- 1,
'DDD:HH24:MI') as diff
FROM dual;
DIFF
---------
001:02:30
If you want the 'hours' value to be higher instead - e.g. '26:30' in this example - then it gets rather more complicated; I see #MTO has added the 'arithmetic' approach already so I won't repeat that. But then might be better off going down the extract() route (which you should consider anyway as it's more flexible and elegant...)

How to extract time from a column and subtract from a custom time in Oracle

I would like to compare two time values. The first time value is a custom time which reprsents the start time, for example the column name is Business_Start_time and set to 6:00:00 am. I would also like to extract the time only from a column in Oracle which is a date field that looks like '5/1/2019 12:57:19 PM' and is called 'Completed_Date_Time'. The purpose of this is to compare the businses start date to the time a file was completed. I've tried to convert the 'Completed_Date_Time' field to 'HH24:MI:SS' format which seems to change the datatype to a char(8) value which does not allow me to compare two timestamps.
CAST(TO_CHAR(Completed_Date_Time, 'HH:MI:SS AM') AS CHAR(8))
Convert the values to TIMESTAMP and then you can subtract the values from the values truncated to the start of the day to get an INTERVAL containing the time since midnight and to get the difference you can subtract.
Oracle Setup:
CREATE TABLE table_name ( Business_Start_time, Completed_Date_Time ) AS
SELECT '6:00:00 AM',
TO_DATE( '5/1/2019 12:57:19 PM', 'DD/MM/YYYY HH12:MI:SS AM' )
FROM DUAL
Query:
SELECT ( completed_time - TRUNC( completed_time ) ) -
( start_time - TRUNC( start_time ) ) AS time_difference
FROM (
SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP( business_start_time, 'HH12:MI:SS AM' ) AS start_time,
CAST( Completed_Date_Time AS TIMESTAMP ) AS completed_time
FROM table_name
)
Output:
| TIME_DIFFERENCE |
| :---------------------------- |
| +000000000 06:57:19.000000000 |
db<>fiddle here
Although you wrote both the question and a comment, I'm still not sure what you have and what you want to get. Sample case would help (create table & insert into).
Meanwhile, a few words about it: when subtracting two DATE datatype values, the result is number of days, which means that - if you want to display it in a format which is easier to read & understand - you have to do some calculations (a day has 24 hours; an hour has 60 mintues; and so forth).
Here's an example:
SQL> create table test
2 (business_Start_time date,
3 completed_date_Time date
4 );
Table created.
SQL> insert into test (business_start_time, completed_date_time) values
2 (to_date('05.01.2019 12:57:19', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss'),
3 to_date('05.01.2019 18:58:20', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi:ss'));
1 row created.
Simply subtracted, you'd get
SQL> select completed_date_time - business_start_time result from test;
RESULT
----------
,250706019
SQL>
Here's a function which presents such a value in another format, dd:hh:mi (days:hours:minutes) (you can omit days by setting the second parameter to 0):
SQL> create or replace
2 function f_days2ddhhmi (par_broj_dana in number, par_cb_dd in number)
3 return varchar2
4 is
5 /* Converting number of days into dd:hh:mi format
6
7 Date from Date to Diff (days) Retval
8 -------------------- -------------------- -------------- ----------------------------------
9 20.11.2018. 07:00:00 - 20.11.2018. 13:45:00 0,28125 0:06:45 (6 hours 45 minutes)
10 23.10.2018. 07:00:00 - 25.10.2018. 22:12:00 2,63333 2:15:12 (2 daysa 15 hours 12 minutes)
11
12 PAR_BROJ_DANA: 0.28125
13 PAR_CB_DD : display number of days or not? 1 - yes --> 0:06:45
14 0 - no --> 06:45
15 */
16 l_broj_dana number := round (par_broj_dana, 15); -- to avoid 1.99999999999999 days = 1 day 24 hours
17 retval varchar2 (20);
18 begin
19 with podaci
20 as (select trunc (l_broj_dana) broj_dana,
21 round (mod (l_broj_dana * 24, 24), 2) broj_sati
22 from dual)
23 select decode (par_cb_dd,
24 1, lpad (p.broj_dana, 2, '0') || ':',
25 0, null)
26 || lpad (trunc (p.broj_sati), 2, '0')
27 || ':'
28 || lpad (round ( (p.broj_sati - trunc (p.broj_sati)) * 60),
29 2,
30 '0')
31 into retval
32 from podaci p;
33
34 return retval;
35 end f_days2ddhhmi;
36 /
Function created.
Applied to the test table, you'd get
SQL> select f_days2ddhhmi(completed_date_time - business_start_time, 0) result
2 from test;
RESULT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06:01
which means that the difference is 6 hours and 1 minute.
If that's what you asked, see whether you can use it. Feel free to enhance it to seconds etc. if necessary.

Time difference in oracle

Hi i have the following table which contains Start time,end time, total time
STARTTIME | ENDTIME | TOTAL TIME TAKEN |
02-12-2013 01:24:00 | 02-12-2013 04:17:00 | 02:53:00 |
I need to update the TOTAL TIME TAKEN field as above using the update query in oracle
For that I have tried the following select query
select round((endtime-starttime) * 60 * 24,2),
endtime,
starttime
from purge_archive_status_log
but I'm getting 02.53 as a result, but my expectation format is 02:53:00 Please let me know how can I do this?
There is probably no reason to have that total_time_taken column in your table at all, you can always calculate it's value. But If you insist on keeping it, it would be better to recreated it as column of interval day to second data type, not varchar2(assuming that that's its current data type). So here are two queries for you to choose from, one returns value of interval day to second data type and another one value of varchar2 data type:
This query returns difference between two dates as a value of interval day to second data type:
SQL> with t1(starttime, endtime, total_time_taken ) as(
2 select to_date('02-12-2013 01:24:00', 'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
3 , to_date('02-12-2013 04:17:00', 'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
4 , '02:53:00'
5 from dual
6 )
7 select starttime
8 , endtime
9 , (endtime - starttime) day(0) to second(0) as total_time_taken
10 from t1
11 ;
Result:
STARTTIME ENDTIME TOTAL_TIME_TAKEN
----------- ----------- ----------------
02-12-2013 01:24:00 02-12-2013 04:17:00 +0 02:53:00
This query returns difference between two dates as a value of varchar2 data type:
SQL> with t1(starttime, endtime, total_time_taken ) as(
2 select to_date('02-12-2013 01:24:00', 'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
3 , to_date('02-12-2013 04:17:00', 'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
4 , '02:53:00'
5 from dual
6 )
7 select starttime
8 , endtime
9 , to_char(extract(hour from res), 'fm00') || ':' ||
10 to_char(extract(minute from res), 'fm00') || ':' ||
11 to_char(extract(second from res), 'fm00') as total_time_taken
12 from(select starttime
13 , endtime
14 , total_time_taken
15 , (endtime - starttime) day(0) to second(0) as res
16 from t1
17 )
18 ;
Result:
STARTTIME ENDTIME TOTAL_TIME_TAKEN
----------- ----------- ----------------
02-12-2013 01:24:00 02-12-2013 04:17:00 02:53:00
Try this too,
WITH TIME AS (
SELECT to_date('02-12-2013 01:24:00', 'dd-mm-yyyy hh24:mi:ss') starttime,
to_date('02-12-2013 04:17:00', 'dd-mm-yyyy hh24:mi:ss') endTime
FROM dual)
SELECT to_char(TRUNC ((endTime - startTime)* 86400 / (60 * 60)), 'fm09')||':'||
to_char(TRUNC (MOD ((endTime - startTime)* 86400, (60*60)) / 60), 'fm09')||':'||
to_char(MOD((endTime - startTime)* 86400, 60), 'fm09') time_diff
FROM TIME;

how to convert minutes into DD:HH:MM format in oracle? Let's say 1008307 seconds I need to display as DD:HH:MM format

how to convert seconds into (days/hours/minutes) DD:HH:MM format in oracle? Let's say 1008307 seconds I need to display as DD:HH:MM format
If I understand what you want (not sure I do!) try this:
select to_char(start_date + (1008307 / 86400), 'DD:HH24:MI') from dual;
I assume you need to say days/hours/minutes since a certain time - this is the start_date. And you'll need to change the 1008307 to whatever value, obviously.
If I understand what you want (my guess is different than #cagcowboy's)
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 select extract( day from ds_interval ) || ':' ||
2 to_char( extract( hour from ds_interval ), 'fm00' ) || ':' ||
3 to_char( extract( minute from ds_interval ), 'fm00' ) "dd:hh:mm format",
4 to_char( extract( second from ds_interval ), 'fm00' ) remaining_seconds
5 from (
6 select numtodsinterval( 1008307, 'second' ) ds_interval
7 from dual
8* )
SQL> /
dd:hh:mm format REM
------------------------------------------------ ---
11:16:05 07

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