I think there should be no problem to use the SUM() function - did you tried
it like this
select SEC_to_time(SUM(unix_timestamp(TTendTime) -
unix_timestamp(TTstartTime))) as endtime
FROM TimeTracking
WHERE TTperson = 1 and date(TTstartTime) = '2005-10-19'
HTH
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Dobromir Velev
dobromir@stripped
http://www.websitepulse.com/
On Monday 24 October 2005 07:48, jabbott@stripped wrote:
> I have a table doing time tracking. I don't use timestamps, I use datetime
> fields to record punch in times and punch out times. I have this query
> that computes the amount of time between a punch in and punch out:
>
> select SEC_to_time(unix_timestamp(TTendTime) - unix_timestamp(TTstartTime))
> as endtime
> FROM TimeTracking
> WHERE TTperson = 1
> and date(TTstartTime) = '2005-10-19'
>
> And this works great except for when people punch in and out several times
> in one day. Is there any way I can total a number of records into one
> total time? In this example case, I am TTperson #1 and I punched in and
> out five times this day.
>
> I know I can do it in the code, but if I can do it in sql, life would be
> better for me.
>
> --ja
>
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