Time Format issues

• gary.vaughan 25041

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  February 13, 2014 at 8:40 am

  #144851

  pulling from a ms-dos csv file, time format is just numbers, no ":"

  if event time is 145345 it shows as 145345, if it is 23 seconds after midnight it shows as 23

  How do I convert or substring it to read 000023?

• Keith Tate

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  February 13, 2014 at 8:52 am

  #1688788

  You can try this:declare @timevar int

  select @timevar = '145345'

  select right('000000' + cast(@timevar as varchar(6)), 6)

  select @timevar = '23'

  select right('000000' + cast(@timevar as varchar(6)), 6)

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• Luis Cazares

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  February 13, 2014 at 9:00 am

  #1688794

  I'd go a little further and get the data as time.

  declare @timevar int

  select @timevar = '145345'

  select CAST( STUFF( STUFF( right('000000' + cast(@timevar as varchar(6)), 6), 5, 0, ':'), 3, 0, ':') AS time)

  select @timevar = '23'

  select CAST( STUFF( STUFF( right('000000' + cast(@timevar as varchar(6)), 6), 5, 0, ':'), 3, 0, ':') AS time)

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