Incrementing hours and days - sql

Question

I am building a report in SSRS.
In design mode it looks like this:
tat2 are values 1 through 192 and appear on the report like this:
1
2
3
...
192
I would like to know if there's a way to instead do something like this:
DAY 1 12:00AM
DAY 1 1:00AM
DAY 1 2:00AM
...
DAY 7 9:00PM
...
DAY 8 12:00AM
In other words, I would like to turn the numbers 1 through 192 into hours and days.

Answer 1

You could use Date.AddHours() for this - just create a new Date that's the start of any year and use
Date.AddHours(Fields!YourNumericField.Value)
This way you get rolling hours - will you ever have more than 192? What's the maximum range, as this would roll-over at 365. You could just mix and match and do an expression though like:
=Math.Ceiling(Fields!YourNumericField.Value / 24) & SomeDate.AddHours(Fields!YourNumericField.Value)
Something like that
I don't have SSRS on this machine to test though :P
Edit:
Ok so to get the base date you can use new DateTime(year, month, day)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.aspx
So the expression
="DAY " & Math.Ceiling(Fields!tat2.Value / 24) & " " & format(new DateTime(2000, 1, 1).AddHours(Fields!tat2.Value), "hh:mm tt")
This should give:
DAY 1 10:45 AM
Should work - if you want to change the format of the 10:00AM bit check this reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx
"HH:mm" gives you 24 hour time + minutes e.g. 23:54
"hh:mm tt" is 12 hour e.g. 12:00 PM
Have a play

Answer 2

This can be easily done in the underlying query - not sure about doing it in SSRS:
SELECT
Tat2 / 24 + 1 as Day,
CAST(Tat2 % 24 AS CHAR(2)) + ':00 ' +
CASE WHEN Tat2 % 24 > 12 then 'PM' else 'AM' end as AMPM
FROM YourTable
This won't, of course, handle more than 365 days, because it doesn't months or years.