Question

My MySql table is returning days instead of time. I need a minimum level of minutes in a day so 1440 records should be auto populated but i keep getting days back. Any idea why? Also i dont need seconds, only hours and minutes but i am not sure how to do a date fill without seconds since the format of time is always ’00:00:00′

The procedure is below:

DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE p_sc_time(IN startdate DATETIME,IN stopdate DATETIME)
BEGIN
DECLARE currentdate DATE;
SET currentdate = startdate;
WHILE currentdate < stopdate DO
    INSERT INTO sc_time VALUES (
    NULL,
    TIME(currentdate),
    HOUR(currentdate),
    MINUTE(currentdate));
SET currentdate == ADDDATE(currentdate,INTERVAL 1 MINUTE);
END WHILE;
END
//
DELIMITER ;
TRUNCATE TABLE sc_time;
CALL p_sc_time('01-01-01 00:00:00','01-01-01 23:59:59');

Answer 1

I don’t have a running instance of MySQL to test, but I believe you should change your currentdate type to DATETIME.