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Author Topic: Ask Reuben 120 - Datetime Addition  (Read 5318 times)
Reuben B.
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« on: April 08, 2022, 05:35:32 am »

With DATETIME variables, a common requirement is to add a number of minutes to a DATETIME.
 
Developers occasionally get stuck and the reason I believe is that Implicit Type conversions occasionally get you into bad habits.  Sometimes you need to take a step back, use 3 lines of code instead of 1, then you can see the issue, and then see what the 1 line of code solution is.
 
With DATETIME addition, that can mean making sure that what you are attempting to add to the DATETIME is an INTERVAL, not a STRING.  It should be DATETIME + INTERVAL = DATETIME
 
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Reuben B.
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« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2022, 01:38:55 am »

Rene reminded me about the UNITS operator which could shorten my example even further so I added a small paragraph and included that in the code example.

Reuben

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