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Home > Forums > Programmers > DBMS Packages > Microsoft: Access Reports Forum

Converting Seconds to hh:nn:ss(2)

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ptrifile (TechnicalUser)

23 Apr 12 13:15

I have a report that shows the total time someone is logged into their phone. The data is in seconds, so I take the sum of the seconds/86400 and format the text box as hh:nn:ss and i get the desired result if I am only looking at one days worth of data. If it spans multiple days the data it shown incorrectly.

If this was excel i would change the format from hh:mm:ss to [h]:mm:ss and it would rectify it. Is there something similar in access?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Paul

SkipVought (Programmer)

23 Apr 12 13:28

hi,

Convert Seconds DURATION to DAYS and use the Format() function to return the text structure desired.

If you have multiple days worth, you must convert the seconds to days for each value and then subtract the Date/Time values to get DURATION (END - START)

BTW, if you had SECONDS in Excel, you would STILL need to convert Seconds to Days, in order to format as you suggested.

Skip,
_{Just traded in my old subtlety...
for a NUANCE!}

dhookom (Programmer)

23 Apr 12 13:41

I would create a small user-defined function that concatenates the number of hours and the formatted minutes and seconds:

CODE

Public Function HoursTime(datTime As Date) As String
    Dim intHrs As Integer
    intHrs = Int(datTime * 24)
    HoursTime = intHrs & ":" & Format(datTime, "nn:ss")
End Function

You will need to divide the seconds by 86400 to send to the function.

Duane
Hook'D on Access
MS Access MVP

ptrifile (TechnicalUser)

23 Apr 12 15:58

Dhookom, that worked perfectly, thank you so much!!!!!

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