Question

I am using the TIME data type for storing the employee extra hours worked, in that some instances the time value is stored as like this format

9.08:00:00, 
2.16:00:00, 
1.00:00:00, 
-9.05:00:00 

what is this format and how i know the exact value of this ?

please help on this

thanks in advance,

shiva

Answer 1

9.08:00:00
here 9 is the 9 days then 9*24=216 and .08 is the 8 hours, so totally 216+5=221 hours

2.16:00:00 same as above 2 – 2 days 2*24 and 16 is 16 hours 48+16=64

to see the above calculation by using the MySQL function

Note: in Mysql 5.5.18 the TIME data type column stores the time value like this …