topic QlikView date format for elapsed times in QlikView

QlikView date format for elapsed times

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:37:54 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to show an elapsed time (timestampB - timestampA) and I have troubles getting with the correct format to use for values greater than a day. For example, if the elapsed time is 26 hours and 15 minutes I'll like to show "26:15:00" or "1 02:15:00". In Windows the format is "[ h ]:mm:ss" but it doesn't work in QlikView. Any ideas?

QlikView date format for elapsed times

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:09:50 GMT

Did you try interval function?

interval(timestampB - timestampA, 'hh:mm:ss')
OR
interval(timestampB - timestampA, 'DD hh:mm:ss')

QlikView date format for elapsed times

johnw — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:17:08 GMT

To follow up on that a little, time() is used for clock times. It will never show more than 24 hours because there are only 24 hours on a clock. Interval() is used for elapsed time, which can obviously be more than 24 hours.

QlikView date format for elapsed times

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:39:45 GMT

Thanks! It works.

Re: QlikView date format for elapsed times

martin_cevela — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:09:11 GMT

Hi John,

I have tried both interval cases and I'm getting the same results - it is probably due to the mentioned fact that interval function measures the elapsed time and therefore 'DD hh:mm:ss' format can't be interpreted correctly.

However, if I do need to show this format and use the Interval, how to solve that ?