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9 years ago
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formatting time value to hh:mm:ss

I hope I am posting this to the right location as I am developing a new report.  Anyway, this is coming out of our telephone DB system and one column represented is Duration, which is an int column a...
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    Eric_Zhang
    9 years ago

    Anonymous

     

    Try a DAX as below.

    fmtCol = 
RIGHT ( "0" & INT ( TableName[Duration] / 3600 ), 2 )
    & ":"
    & RIGHT (
        "0"
            & INT ( ( TableName[Duration] - INT (TableName[Duration] / 3600 ) * 3600 ) / 60 ),
        2
    )
    & ":"
    & RIGHT ( "0" & MOD (TableName[Duration], 3600 ), 2 )

    Or deal with the format in query.

    select Duration, convert(varchar(10),DATEADD(second,Duration,0),108) fmtSecs from t1

     

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Eric_Zhang
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9 years ago

Anonymous

 

Try a DAX as below.

fmtCol = 
RIGHT ( "0" & INT ( TableName[Duration] / 3600 ), 2 )
    & ":"
    & RIGHT (
        "0"
            & INT ( ( TableName[Duration] - INT (TableName[Duration] / 3600 ) * 3600 ) / 60 ),
        2
    )
    & ":"
    & RIGHT ( "0" & MOD (TableName[Duration], 3600 ), 2 )

Or deal with the format in query.

select Duration, convert(varchar(10),DATEADD(second,Duration,0),108) fmtSecs from t1

 

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Abduvali
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9 years ago

Eric_Zhang

 

Hi Eric,

 

Your code for Power BI solution works well... the only issue Minutes displayed out of 100 min and not as standard 60 min =o?

 

Any advice?

 

Thanks

 

Abduvali