Converting Time value stored in minutes

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Converting Time value stored in minutes

TangoVictor

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July 8, 2010 at 10:18 am

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In the source system the date and time is stored as an integer representing the number of minutes AD. I have been unable to tie out to the date and time value.
Minutes = 1056915413
The application that uses this data displays it as 6/30/2010 19:53 (CDT). The metadata indicates the time is stored as UTC so the minutes should equal - 2010-07-01 01:53:00.000
Manual calculations:
--(1440*365.25) minutes per year = 525960.00
-- get year, add 1 since start date should be 1-1-0001
SELECT (1056915413/525960)+1
-- minutes based on remainder
SELECT (1056915413%525960)
-- add minutes remaining to midnight on jan 1, 2010
SELECT DATEADD(n,261773,'2010-01-01 00:00:00')
Results:
-----------
2010
(1 row(s) affected
---------------------------------------
261773.00
(1 row(s) affected)
-----------------------
2010-07-01 18:53:00.000
(1 row(s) affected)
Is there a function in SQL or a standard method to determine this.
I tried the following C#:
DateTime startDT = new DateTime(0001, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0);
TimeSpan span = new TimeSpan(0, 1056915413, 0);
textBox1.Text = Convert.ToString(startDT+span);
This returned 7/17/2010 0:53:00 AM
The minutes are correct in both examples. Any suggestions would be great.

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stevefromOZ SSC-Forever Points: 43646 More actions · Answer 1

You could make a UDF that contains the logic and then use it inline. Primary contents would be

DECLARE

@jDate INT,

@jBase INT

SET @jBase = 998799780 -- 1900-01-01

SET @jDate = 1056915413 -- this is the parameter you set to your incoming 'number'

SELECT DATEADD(n, (@jDate - @jBase), '1900-01-01 00:00')

HTH,

Steve.

Wesley Norton SSCrazy Points: 2827 More actions · Answer 2

How about correcting for the time zone? Maybe I'm not getting your question, but would something like this work:

SELECT dateadd(ss,(DATEDIFF(ss,GETDATE(),GETUTCDATE())),(DATEADD(n,261773,'2010-01-01 00:00:00')))

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95409 More actions · Answer 3

Since you posted in a SQL 2005 forum, I'm assuming that you are on that version, which means that the sql 2008 date/time enhancements won't help you:

declare @minutes int = 1056915413

declare @test-2 datetime2 = '01/01/0001'

select DATEADD(minute, @minutes, @test-2)

This code returns:

2010-07-17 00:53:00.0000000

The six hour part is the GMT offset (which takes it to 2010-07-16 18:53:00.0000000), but this leaves a 15 day discrepancy. I think that most of this is that the day after 9/2/1752 was 9/14/1752, but this only accounts for 11 of those days. The 365.25 accounts for some also... years evenly divisible by 100, unless evenly divisibly by 400, aren't leap years. Which means in 400 years, there are 146097 days (210379680 minutes); your calculation would get 146100 days (210384000 minutes).

So, the conversion you're doing in C# looks correct to me.

You might want to consider a calendar table - list of all dates since 01/01/0001. The following code (on SQL 2008) returns the proper date/time (7/17/2010 00:53:00.0000000) for the minutes:

declare @test-2 datetime2 = '01/01/0001'

-- See Jeff Moden's article

-- The "Numbers" or "Tally" Table: What it is and how it replaces a loop.

-- at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/62867/.

-- NOTE! A permanent tally table will always be MUCH faster

-- than this inline one. See the above article to create your own!

;WITH

Tens (N) AS (SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0 UNION ALL

SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0 UNION ALL

SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0),

Thousands(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM Tens t1 CROSS JOIN Tens t2 CROSS JOIN Tens t3),

Millions (N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM Thousands t1 CROSS JOIN Thousands t2),

Tally (N) AS (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT 0)) FROM Millions),

Dates AS (SELECT DateField = DATEADD(day, N-1, @test-2) FROM Tally WHERE N-1 = 1056915413/1440)

SELECT DATEADD(MINUTE, 1056915413 % 1440, DateField)

FROM Dates

Edit: Modified to add the minutes to the date in the calendar table CTE.

Wayne
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Michael Valentine Jones SSC Guru Points: 64818 More actions · Answer 4

This conversion looks close to what you want:

select

*,

MyDateTime =

dateadd(mi,convert(bigint,a.MyTime-998799780)%convert(bigint,1440),dateadd(dd,(a.MyTime-998799780)/1440,0))

from

( -- Test Data

select MyTime = convert(bigint,1056915413)union all

select MyTime = 000001056915413+(00000000001440*2918000)

Results:

MyTime MyDateTime

--------------------- -----------------------

1056915413 2010-07-01 01:53:00.000

5258835413 9999-09-17 01:53:00.000

Edit:

Changed solution to modify time offset, and to cover the entire range of DATETIME values.

TangoVictor SSChampion Points: 10969 More actions · Answer 5

stevefromoz

that appears to do the trick.

can I ask how you got the minute value for 1900-01-01?

stevefromOZ SSC-Forever Points: 43646 More actions · Answer 6

It may be achievable using something like todays date, but using what you gave us. You gave a starting point/constant of 1056915413 == 2010-07-01 01:53

So we're looking for [constant] - (minutes between [constant] and [1900-01-01 00:00])

which, assuming the logic is correct, could look like...

SELECT

1056915413 -- what you told me was 2010-07-01 01:53

- DATEDIFF(n, '1900-01-01 00:00', '2010-07-01 01:53') -- the date diff of that date to 1900-01-01 00:00

-- Result

998799780

Steve.