Question

I have a numeric field in my report that I perform the operation
Time({Command.EndTime}/60,Remainder({Command.EndTime},60),0)
on.
Basically the field is a time field but my predecessor used a numeric field to represent it for some unknown reason. The field is the number of minutes past midnight. For example: 60 is 1am, 65 is 01:05 am…) I would like to report it in a form that is more human friendly. However, I got this error “Numeric overflow” and wonder what might have caused it. Normally, the cause of this error is a division by zero but the divisor is clearly 60.
If I just used {Command.EndTime}, the report was fine… The database is huge with millions of records, so scanning the report line by line is only my last resort. Is there a way to know what was wrong in the data or better yet get around the error mentioned above?
Thanks!

Answer 1

The first parameter to Time() has to be a whole number. Try this instead:

Time(Truncate({Command.EndTime}/60),Remainder({Command.EndTime},60),0)