From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net>
To: Postgres SQL <pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: Formatting current_time output
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 08:03:06 -0700
Message-ID: <web-1770248@davinci.ethosmedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210031041060.11566-100000@q8.nrnet.org>
Thomas,
> SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'HH:MI AM') FROM DUAL; -- Oracle
> SELECT TIME_FORMAT(current_time,'%l:%i %p'); -- MySQL
>
> Returned: 10:58 AM
>
> I've found lpad(current_time,5); which gets me 1/3 of the way.
> Is there a function I haven't found?
Um, what's wrong with:
SELECT to_char(current_time, 'HH12:MI AM');
?
(See "Formatting Functions" under "Functions and Operators" in the
User's Guide)
-Josh Berkus
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