Re: Time Formatting - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Andrew McMillan
Subject Re: Time Formatting
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Msg-id 1021039030.24698.8.camel@kant.mcmillan.net.nz
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In response to Re: Time Formatting  (hodges@xprt.net)
Responses Re: Time Formatting
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On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 15:30, hodges@xprt.net wrote:
> I have 3 queries and some php to run them.  What I need is
> to display the time in a HH:MM am format.  Doesn't need to
> be stored that way in the table?

Right, so instead of:

SELECT timestamp_field FROM mytable;

you want:

SELECT to_char( timestamp_field, 'HH12:MI am') FROM mytable;

And for lots more information, look at the docs:

>
> On 9 May 2002 at 20:55, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
> > look at the to_char function on
> > http://www.lerctr.org/postgresql/functions-formatting.html
> >

Regards,
                Andrew.
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