topic Re: Find hours between dates in QlikView

Find hours between dates

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:06:25 GMT

Hello,

I'm having trouble trying to find the amount of hours,positive or negative, between my date field and today's date. I've looked on other discussions and can't seem to find the solution.

Here's the formula in my script. It is returning null values.

Interval(timestamp(now(),'M/D/YYYY hh:mm')-timestamp(Date1,'M/D/YYYY hh:mm')) as Interval,

Is there another function that I should be using?

Thank you in advance.

Re: Find hours between dates

swuehl — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:23:53 GMT

You don't need to format your timestamps using Timestamp(), but that should not be the issue here.

Ensure that Date1 is read in correctly, interpreted as timestamp by QlikView:

Why don’t my dates work?

Get the Dates Right

QlikView Date fields

Re: Find hours between dates

hector_munoz — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:52:02 GMT

Hi David,

Once I used somenthing like this and worked:

=(Timestamp(Now(), 'DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss') - Timestamp([Creation Date], 'DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm:ss')) * 24

Regards,
H

Re: Find hours between dates

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 21:56:46 GMT

Hello Stefan,

Thank you for your reply.

I have the date being formatted in the script to M/D/YYYY hh:mm and it's being read as such when I pull the field into a listbox

Timestamp#(Date1,'M/D/YYYY hh:mm:ss') as Date1

Re: Find hours between dates

swuehl — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:07:55 GMT

Have you checked that Date1 shows a numeric representation (can be formatted as number)?

Then this should work

Interval( now()-timestamp#(Date1,'M/D/YYYY hh:mm') ) as Interval,

or if your input value shows seconds as well:

Interval( now()-timestamp#(Date1,'M/D/YYYY hh:mm:ss') ) as Interval,

Re: Find hours between dates

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:14:00 GMT

This works, thank you so much!