Thread: Help needed on time data types

Hi I am trying to setup a timesheet app. However I have come up against
an unexpected problem (possibly fatal)

I cannot seem to find a field type in postgres that is equivalent to
h:mm without enforcing a 24 hour day limit. This seems to preclude pg
from use - am I correct?

All the date-time types seem to only be for specific time dates and not
for a running total.

Any help appreciated.

mike wrote:
> I cannot seem to find a field type in postgres that is equivalent to
> h:mm without enforcing a 24 hour day limit. This seems to preclude pg
> from use - am I correct?

You want to use "interval" data type and then do some formatting on the
output to get 123 hours 30 minutes.

See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/datatype-datetime.html

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Michal Taborsky
http://www.taborsky.cz

mike wrote:
> All the date-time types seem to only be for specific time dates and
> not for a running total.

You probably want the interval type.