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  3. March 2015

RE: TO_CHAR function

Rob,
Thanks!
Your example appears to work (not yet after noon here in MST).
I never would have thought of a format string with just those two characters, but that seems much better than using CASE.

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 11:07 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: TO_CHAR function

VALUES TO_CHAR(CURRENT TIMESTAMP, 'AM')
will return AM or PM depending on the time of day. But, it ONLY returns the AM or PM.


It's 1:04pm here.

values to_char(current timestamp, 'AM')
returns PM

values (current time)
concat ' '
concat to_char(current timestamp, 'AM')
returns
13:04:02 PM

Is this what you really want? Or would you rather have this?

values char(current time, USA)
....+...
VALUES
01:04 PM





Rob Berendt

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