Timestamp alculation identical to Microsoft Excel results
Ertan Küçükoğlu <[email protected]>
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Hello, There is this Excel report which will be produced by an application. In Excel, there is below equation 31/10/2017 15:05 - 31/10/2017 14:36:00 = 0:28:21 2017-10-31 13:22:17 - 2017-11-01 14:47:45 = 1/1/1900 01:25 That is very simple in PostgreSQL. Simply subtract two timestamp without time zone fields and you have the result. However, Excel also represent that result 0:28:21 as double notation 0.0196874999965075 and 1/1/1900 01:25 as 1,05935185185081. I could not see any way to have same values using PostgreSQL query. I tried: extract(epoch from time_field2) - extract(epoch from time_field1) and result is 1701 and 5128 respectively. Putting aside reasons as to why numbers are used instead of more human understandable time format, I would like to learn if having same results as Excel is possible. Thanks & regards, Ertan Küçükoğlu