how to convert HH:MM representation to minutes in oracle sql - sql

Question

how to convert varchar(hh:mm) to minutes in oracle sql.
For example:
HH:MM Minutes
08:00 480
08:45 525
07:57 477

Answer 1

This will work even if the duration is 24 hours or greater:
SQL Fiddle
Oracle 11g R2 Schema Setup:
CREATE TABLE durations ( duration ) AS
SELECT '00:30' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT '07:57' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT '08:00' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT '12:00' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT '20:01' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT '23:59' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT '24:00' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT '24:59' FROM DUAL;
Query 1:
SELECT duration,
( (
DATE '1970-01-01'
+ NUMTODSINTERVAL( SUBSTR( duration, 1, INSTR( duration, ':' ) - 1 ), 'HOUR' )
+ NUMTODSINTERVAL( SUBSTR( duration, INSTR( duration, ':' ) + 1 ), 'MINUTE' )
)
- DATE '1970-01-01'
) * 24 * 60 AS Minutes
FROM durations
Results:
| DURATION | MINUTES |
|----------|---------|
| 00:30 | 30 |
| 07:57 | 477 |
| 08:00 | 480 |
| 12:00 | 720 |
| 20:01 | 1201 |
| 23:59 | 1439 |
| 24:00 | 1440 |
| 24:59 | 1499 |
However, there is an INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND data type that would be better suited to your data:
CREATE TABLE your_table (
duration INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
);
Then you can just do:
INSERT INTO your_table ( duration ) VALUES ( INTERVAL '08:00' HOUR TO MINUTE );
To get the number of minutes you can then simply do:
SELECT ( ( DATE '1970-01-01' + duration ) - DATE '1970-01-01' ) *24*60 AS minutes
FROM your_table

Answer 2

Try this
TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR('(08:00)',2,INSTR('(08:00)',':')-2))*60+TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR('(08:00)',INSTR('(08:00)',':')+1,2))

Answer 3

If you can convert your input to a real date first, the task becomes much easier. Here, I have shamelessly appended the time to a fake date to create a date such as 2017-01-01 00:30. To find out the number of minutes since midnight, you simply subtract the date for "midnight". It will return the difference in days, so you need to multiply by number of minutes per day to get what you want.
select time
,(to_date('2017-01-01 ' || time, 'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi') - date '2017-01-01') * 24 * 60 as minutes
from (select '00:30' as time from dual union all
select '08:00' as time from dual union all
select '08:30' as time from dual union all
select '12:00' as time from dual union all
select '23:59' as time from dual
);
Here is some sample input and output
time minutes
==== =======
00:30 30
08:00 480
08:30 510
12:00 720
23:59 1 439

Answer 4

If you require to Print 08:00 hours as 480 minutes,
Extract the Digit before : and multply with 60 and add the digit after :. So you can convert the HH:MM representation in to minutes.
SELECT REGEXP_SUBSTR(ATT.workdur,'[^:]+',1,1)*60 + REGEXP_SUBSTR(ATT.workdur,'[^:]+',1,2) MINUTES FROM DUAL;