Re: Formatting current_time output

From: Thomas Good <tomg(at)sqlclinic(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres SQL <pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Formatting current_time output
Date: 2002-10-03 15:10:03
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0210031103540.11713-100000@q8.nrnet.org
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> > SELECT TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'HH:MI AM') FROM DUAL; -- Oracle
> > SELECT TIME_FORMAT(current_time,'%l:%i %p'); -- MySQL
> >
> > Returned: 10:58 AM
> >
> > I've found lpad(current_time,5); which gets me 1/3 of the way.
> > Is there a function I haven't found?
>
> Um, what's wrong with:
> SELECT to_char(current_time, 'HH12:MI AM');

Not a thing! Except that I think you mean 'current_date'. ;-)

Cheers Josh (and thanks alot)...

BTW the JOIN you sent the other day worked fine.
Thanks again,
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