Duration between time stamps

[Anonymous]

Hi QV expert!

I'd like to calculate the duration in hour between two time stamps shown below in the load script.  Can someone help me with that?

Thanks

Job ID	Time Started	Time Completed	Duration(hr) (example)
1	August 16, 2015 at 9:54 AM	August 19, 2015 at 9:21 PM	60.2
2	August 20, 2015 at 5:55 PM	August 21, 2015 at 3:44 AM	10
3	September 8, 2015 at 4:49 PM	September 8, 2015 at 5:02 PM	0.1

[sunny_talwar]

Not sure if this is what you want, but I got different value for Job 1:

If the values look good. I used the following script:

SET TimestampFormat='MMM DD YYYY h:mmTT';

Table:

LOAD *,

  Interval(Timestamp#([Time Completed]) - Timestamp#([Time Started]), 'hh:m')  as Difference;

LOAD * Inline [

Job ID, Time Started, Time Completed, Test

1, Aug 16 2015 9:54AM, Aug 19 2015 9:21PM, 60.2

2, Aug 20 2015 5:55PM, Aug 21 2015 3:44AM, 10

3, Sep 8 2015 4:49PM, Sep 8 2015 5:02PM, 0.1

];

[maxgro · Accepted solution]

see attachment

expression is

=

Interval(

  (

  Date#(replace([Time Completed], 'at ', ''), 'MMMM DD, YYYY h:mm tt')

  -

  Date#(replace([Time Started], 'at ', ''), 'MMMM DD, YYYY h:mm tt')

  )

  ,'hh')

[MarcoWedel]

Hi,

another solution could be.

LOAD *,
     Num(([Time Completed]-[Time Started])*24,'0.0') as [Duration(hr)];
LOAD [Job ID], 
     Timestamp(Timestamp#(SubField([Time Started],'at',1)&SubField([Time Started],'at',2),'MMMM DD, YYYY  h:mm TT')) as [Time Started], 
     Timestamp(Timestamp#(SubField([Time Completed],'at',1)&SubField([Time Completed],'at',2),'MMMM DD, YYYY  h:mm TT')) as [Time Completed]
FROM [https://community.qlik.com/thread/180887] (html, codepage is 1252, embedded labels, table is @1);

hope this helps

regards

Marco