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I have a field which is a time-field (it does not need to be a datetime field, cause the date part makes no sense here). The value i want to add is in another field, in minutes.
So basicly, I want to add minutes to a time value. I have tried the DATE_ADD function, but it expects the date to be a datetime, with the datepart set. I also tried the ADDTIME function, but the problem here is that the duration field is in whole minutes, and not in the format hh:mm:ss, so it just adds it as seconds.
Does anyone know a way to accomplish this?
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This is the current query:
SELECT ADDTIME(startTime, duration * 60), startTime, duration FROM tblAppointment
JOIN tblThreatment ON tblThreatment.threatmentid = tblAppointment.threatment_id;
and this is the result:
+-----------------------------------+-----------+----------+
| ADDTIME(startTime, duration * 60) | startTime | duration |
+-----------------------------------+-----------+----------+
| 09:18:00 | 09:00:00 | 30 |
| 10:09:00 | 10:00:00 | 15 |
| 09:09:00 | 09:00:00 | 15 |
| 10:57:00 | 10:30:00 | 45 |
+-----------------------------------+-----------+----------+
The Addtime function is definitely the way to go. To just add a certain amount of minutes, you could do something like:
AddTime('00:00:00', '00:10:00')
This would add 10 minutes to the first value.
You can read more on dev.mysql.com here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_addtime
EDIT:
In addition to your comment, if you get the value to add in the format of mm and nothing else, then you could parse a time value with the SEC_TO_TIME() function, like this:
SELECT ADDTIME(startTime, SEC_TO_TIME(duration*60)), startTime, duration
FROM tblAppointment
JOIN tblThreatment ON tblThreatment.threatmentid = tblAppointment.threatment_id;
This would return a time in the hh:mm:ss format.