RE: seconds from midnight into a date field?

From: Mark Moynahan <Mark.Moynahan_at_apollogrp.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:11:07 -0700
Message-ID: <73BB49215339D743903095833FFE4B17DA504C@apophxex4.apollogrp.edu>

If you're running on 9i you can do something like this:

alter session set nls_date_format='dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss';

markis_at_PRACTICE>select numtodsinterval(0001,'SECOND')+trunc(sysdate)dt from dual;

DT

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12-jul-2004 00:00:01

markis_at_PRACTICE>select numtodsinterval('0050','SECOND')+trunc(sysdate)dt from dual;

DT

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12-jul-2004 00:00:50

markis_at_PRACTICE>select numtodsinterval('0054','SECOND')+trunc(sysdate)dt from dual;

DT

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12-jul-2004 00:00:54

HTH, Mark

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To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Sent: 7/12/2004 5:54 AM
Subject: seconds from midnight into a date field?

I have a varchar field that I need to migrate to a date field. it is in the form 'seconds from midnight' and looks like this 0001
0050
1054
I can't find a to_date function to translate that. do any exist?

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