Re: Need to omit time during weekends from age calculations

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Need to omit time during weekends from age calculations
Date: 2021-06-07 19:45:38
Message-ID: CAFj8pRB8Y+mvHRvtdiy_ArhaGzpaZu=o10hPLAuEvjwRGHB=mg@mail.gmail.com
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po 7. 6. 2021 v 21:17 odesílatel Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> napsal:

> On 6/7/21 2:12 PM, David Gauthier wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I suspect I'm not the first to ask about this but couldn't find anything
> after googling for a bit. So here goes....
>
> I'd like to get the "age" difference between two times which span either
> all or part of a weekend but exclude any time that transpired during the
> weekend.
> Example (please pardon the non-timestamp vals here...)
>
> age('Monday-Noon','Prev-Friday-Noon')
> would give me '1 day'.
>
> ...and...
>
> age('Sunday-Noon','Prev-Friday-Noon')
> would give me '12 hours'
>
> You get the picture.
>
> Has this wheel already been invented ?
> I don't see an easy way to do this off-hand.
> All Ears :-)
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
>
> You seem to be asking about counting work days. Am I misunderstanding?
>

orafce has functions for business calendar with holidays

https://github.com/orafce/orafce

plvdate.add_bizdays(day date, days int) date

Regards

Pavel

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