Question

I have this logic in my C# code which gives me time difference between two times

Example inputs are: ’12:00 AM’ – ’11:15 AM’ gives 45 minutes.

DateTime startTime = Convert.ToDateTime(startTimeHH + ":" + startTimeMM + " " + startTimeAMPM);
DateTime endTime = Convert.ToDateTime(endTimeHH + ":" + endTimeMM + " " + endTimeAMPM);
DateTime breakTime = Convert.ToDateTime(breakTimeHH + ":" + breakTimeMM);

TimeSpan hours = endTime.Subtract(startTime);
hours = hours.Subtract(breakTime.TimeOfDay);

I referred some MSDN docs datetime functions in SQL server but couldn’t find these functions which can give me time from input as 12:00 PM

However now I need to move this piece now into SQL server. How do I write it?

Example inputs are: ’12:00 AM’ – ’11:15 AM’ won’t return 45 it will return 75 (it contains 15 as 25)

Answer 1

Here is one way to get what looks like a .NET TimeSpan:

declare @startTimeHH char(2) = '10',
        @startTimeMM char(2) = '30',
        @startTimeAMPM char(2) = 'AM',
        @endTimeHH char(2) = '12',
        @endTimeMM char(2) = '00',
        @endTimeAMPM char(2) = 'PM',
        @breakTimeHH char(2) = '01',
        @breakTimeMM char(2) = '15',
        @startTime DateTime, 
        @endTime DateTime, 
        @breakTime DateTime, 
        @result Time

set @startTime = cast ((@startTimeHH + ':' + @startTimeMM + ' ' + @startTimeAMPM) as Time);
set @endTime = cast ((@endTimeHH + ':' + @endTimeMM + ' ' + @endTimeAMPM) as Time);
set @breakTime = cast ((@breakTimeHH + ':' + @breakTimeMM) as Time);

set @result = @endTime - @startTime - @breakTime
select cast(@result as CHAR(8))

The result is 00:15:00