Statement Help: Showing Time Minus 2 Hours

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Statement Help: Showing Time Minus 2 Hours

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MrIxi
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Posted - 2008-10-31 : 08:55:16

Greetings!

I am displaying the date/time of transactions in my client's admin area. Since my client lives in the Pacific time zone, she wants the time figure to always display as PST, regardless of the client's time zone. The server is in the Central time zone, so I want to be able to subtract two hours from the displayed time.

Here's the part of the select statement that concerns the date field 'createDate'. How would I accomplish this?

SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT id, CONVERT(varchar, createDate, 100) AS Date

Thanks for the assist!

madhivanan
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Posted - 2008-10-31 : 09:10:59

SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT id, CONVERT(varchar, dateadd(hour,-2,createDate, 100)) AS Date

Madhivanan

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madhivanan
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Posted - 2008-10-31 : 09:13:25

Also dont convert the date to varchar. Format dates in the front end application

Madhivanan

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MrIxi
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Posted - 2008-10-31 : 11:43:03

Thank you Madhivanan! Works brilliantly.

PS. I had to make a slight modification to your CONVERT parameters:

CONVERT(varchar, DATEADD(hour, - 2, createDate), 100)

madhivanan
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Posted - 2008-11-01 : 02:45:06

quote:
Originally posted by MrIxi

Thank you Madhivanan! Works brilliantly.

PS. I had to make a slight modification to your CONVERT parameters:

CONVERT(varchar, DATEADD(hour, - 2, createDate), 100)

What is the modification except upper case for DATEADD?

Madhivanan

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visakh16
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Posted - 2008-11-01 : 02:46:53

quote:
Originally posted by madhivanan

quote:
Originally posted by MrIxi

Thank you Madhivanan! Works brilliantly.

PS. I had to make a slight modification to your CONVERT parameters:

CONVERT(varchar, DATEADD(hour, - 2, createDate), 100)

What is the modification except upper case for DATEADD?

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

and he's still converting it to varchar which was against what you suggested

MrIxi
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Posted - 2008-11-01 : 07:53:34

Original: CONVERT(varchar, dateadd(hour,-2,createDate, 100))
Modified: CONVERT(varchar, DATEADD(hour,-2,createDate), 100)

I only discovered it because the error said that DATEADD needs three arguments.

Thanks again.

visakh16: Yes, I left varchar because it works fine as is.

madhivanan
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Posted - 2008-11-01 : 08:42:40

quote:
Originally posted by MrIxi

Original: CONVERT(varchar, dateadd(hour,-2,createDate, 100))
Modified: CONVERT(varchar, DATEADD(hour,-2,createDate), 100)

I only discovered it because the error said that DATEADD needs three arguments.

Thanks again.

visakh16: Yes, I left varchar because it works fine as is.

Ok Thanks

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

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