RE: Finding the Elapsed time between two date fields

Barbara Morris came up with this solution not long ago:


For that to work, the time field would have to be a time type.  I can't
remember if you get roll-over or overflow if you add too many seconds to
a time.  I guess either would be bad, so if the difference *could* be
more than 24 hours, you'd have to use the division method.  Although ...
if the difference was be guaranteed to be less than 29 days, you could
add the seconds to a loval timestamp and get an answer in
days-hours-minutes-seconds.

d dayHrMinSec      s        11a
    evalr dayHrMinSec = %char(z'0001-01-01-00.00.00' +
%seconds(%diff(ts1:ts2:*seconds)));

Snicker.

To get rid of the icky unbalanced separators:

    evalr dayHrMinSec = %xlate('-':'.':%char(z'0001-01-01-00.00.00' +
%seconds(%diff(ts1:ts2:*seconds)));

Double snicker.