Question

I have a regular DATETIME row, eg: 2012-06-19 13:56:56

I am running the following to see how much the time difference is:

DATEDIFF(end_time, NOW()) * 24

It returns 48

Edit: How do I get the Minutes/Seconds? I have tried UNIXTIME(field) - UNIXTIME(NOW()) but i cant get beyond it.

Im trying to convert this into 48:00:00 (Or however that timestamp works)

I keep looking up time functions but they have to do with EXTRACT, and Im not sure thats the way to go about it.

Answer 1

Since datediff only ever returns a difference in days, you might as well just use a string operation to do your formating:

SELECT CONCAT(DATEDIFF(end_time, NOW()) * 24), ':00:00')