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user656079
user656079

Reputation: 203

MySQL convert timediff output to day, hour, minute, second format

This is my query:

SELECT TIMEDIFF(end_time,start_time) AS "total" FROM `metrics`;

which gives me:

116:12:10

meaning 116 hours, 12 minutes and 10 seconds.

Instead, I want it to say 4 days 20 hours, 12 minutes etc

Upvotes: 20

Views: 60420

Answers (5)

Lalo Zavala
Lalo Zavala

Reputation: 41

I used the answer given by Bodgans, but I added a condition to insert a 0 before quantities less than 10.

CONCAT(
  IF(FLOOR(TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) / 86400) < 10, '0', ''),    FLOOR(TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) / 86400), ' days ',
  IF(FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 86400)/3600) < 10, '0', ''), FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 86400)/3600), ' hours ',
  IF(FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 3600)/60) < 10, '0', ''), FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 3600)/60), ' minutes ',
  IF((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 60) < 10, '0', ''), (TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 60),  ' seconds'
)

In that way, we can get a result as follows

09 days 10 hours 06 minutes 30 seconds

Upvotes: 4

Bogdans
Bogdans

Reputation: 169

The easiest way to do this is 

CONCAT(
  FLOOR(TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) / 86400), ' days ',
  FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 86400)/3600), ' hours ',
  FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 3600)/60), ' minutes ',
  (TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 60),  ' seconds'
)

To show only relevant information you'd need to do a more complex version 

IF(
  FLOOR(TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) / 86400) = 0,
  IF(
    FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 86400)/3600) = 0,
    IF(
      FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 3600)/60) = 0,
      CONCAT((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 60),  ' seconds'),
      CONCAT(
        FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 3600)/60), ' minutes ',
        (TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 60),  ' seconds'
      )
    ),
    CONCAT(
      FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 86400)/3600), ' hours ',
      FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 3600)/60), ' minutes ',
      (TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 60),  ' seconds'
    )
  ),
  CONCAT(
    FLOOR(TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) / 86400), ' days ',
    FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 86400)/3600), ' hours ',
    FLOOR((TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 3600)/60), ' minutes ',
    (TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND, startDate, endDate) % 60),  ' seconds'
  )
)

Upvotes: 2

McAngujo
McAngujo

Reputation: 115

Try 

SELECT @s:='2016-03-01' started, @e:= '2018-04-21' ended, 
FLOOR((@ms:=TIMESTAMPDIFF(MONTH,@s,@e))/12) yrs, (@ms%12) mns, 
@d:=TIMESTAMPDIFF(DAY,@s:=DATE_ADD(@s,INTERVAL @ms MONTH), @e) dys,
@hr:=TIMESTAMPDIFF(HOUR,@s:=DATE_ADD(@s, INTERVAL @d DAY),@e) hrs,
TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE,TIMESTAMPADD(HOUR,@hr,@s),@e) mins;

This will give you a breakdown from year, month, day, hour and minutes between two dates.

Hope it assists someone.

Upvotes: 3

RichardTheKiwi
RichardTheKiwi

Reputation: 107696

SELECT CONCAT(
FLOOR(HOUR(TIMEDIFF('2010-01-06 08:46', '2010-01-01 12:30')) / 24), ' days ',
MOD(HOUR(TIMEDIFF('2010-01-06 08:46', '2010-01-01 12:30')), 24), ' hours ',
MINUTE(TIMEDIFF('2010-01-06 08:46', '2010-01-01 12:30')), ' minutes')

Use your end_time and start_time for the fixed datetime values in my example

As per the two comments below, this solution only works for date differences within 35 days. If you know there are more than 35 days between start and end, i.e. differences over a month, don't use it. Other answers here using TIMESTAMPDIFF will work.

Upvotes: 40

borre
borre

Reputation: 167

SELECT 
CONCAT(
TIMESTAMPDIFF(day,'2001-01-01 00:00:00','2001-01-02 23:10:00') , ' dagen ',
MOD( TIMESTAMPDIFF(hour,'2001-01-01 00:00:00','2001-01-02 23:10:00'), 24), ' uren ',
MOD( TIMESTAMPDIFF(minute,'2001-01-01 00:00:00','2001-01-02 23:10:00'), 60), ' minuten '
)

Upvotes: 17

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