Oracle-L: RE: Minutes Since Midnight 2000

From: Post, Ethan <Ethan.Post_at_ps.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:50:32 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005336D2.20030117115032@fatcity.com>

Yeah that would work if I want to use the database but I try to write things in such a way that I can use them in other places and share them with other non-DBA types, thus the reason I am not using Perl or GNU date. Oracle-L has some very good *nix scripters so that is why I posted it here, I get faster better responses then many of the *nix lists. Thanks for suggestion.

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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:43 PM
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Cc: Ethan.Post_at_ps.net

Just idea, how about:

SQL> select 24*60*(sysdate - to_date('00-00-00-01-01-2000', 'SS-MI-HH24-DD-MM-YYYY') ) from dual;

24*60*(SYSDATE-TO_DATE('00-00-00-01-01-2000','SS-MI-HH24-DD-MM-YYYY'))

                                                            1602151.58

You can spool this result to a file and then use "cat | awk" to read the number back to your script.

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