Re: seconds from midnight into a date field?
- From: Edgar Chupit <edgar.chupit@xxxxx>
- To: "ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:01:39 +0300
Hello ryan,
Monday, July 12, 2004, 3:54:35 PM, you wrote:
rgcn> I have a varchar field that I need to migrate to a date field. it is in
the form 'seconds from midnight' and looks like this
rgcn> 0001
rgcn> 0050
rgcn> 1054
rgcn> I can't find a to_date function to translate that. do any exist?
Table 2-16 Datetime Format Elements:
SSSSS Yes Seconds past midnight (0-86399).
SQL> select dt, to_date( dt, 'SSSSS')
2 from tt1
3 /
DT TO_DATE(DT,'SSSSS')
---- --------------------
0001 01.07.2004. 00:00:01
0050 01.07.2004. 00:00:50
1054 01.07.2004. 00:17:34
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Best regards,
Edgar
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