Find hours between dates

[Anonymous]

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.

[swuehl]

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

[hector_munoz]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[swuehl · Accepted solution]

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,

[Anonymous]

This works, thank you so much!