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Kratchie
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3 years ago
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Calculate duration from fixed date/time

Hi,   I've a column with fixed time which begins from 2000-01-01 00:00:00 If we find 2000-01-02 03:10:10 in that column it means 27h, 10 min, 10 sec in duration. How can I calculate and get it as ...
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    FreemanZ
    3 years ago

    hi Kratchie 

    not sure about your ultimate goal, try this:

    Column =
    VAR _d = TRUNC( [Duration]-DATE(2000,1,1))
    VAR _hms = FORMAT((([Duration]-DATE(2000,1,1))-_d),"HH:MM:SS")
    RETURN _d &" Days " &_hms
     
    I tried and it worked like this:
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Kratchie
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3 years ago

Hi ValtteriN, 

 

When I created a new visual table and added only DURATION column with your script it worked like a charm. BUT when i'm adding more columns it stopped to work by any reason. Seems that only timestamps with seconds still works partly (only hours + seconds), but when it's whole hour. It doesnt work?! 

 

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ValtteriN
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3 years ago

Kratchie  hmm, 

That seems quite weird. The first things that come to my mind are te following:

1. Are there some other dimension information or slicers affecting the visual? 
2. Is the data format similar in both your example and the data in question

When I tried to re-create this the formula worked well even with whole hours and dates across different months: