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Sum total of a time field
Posted by: Rusty Wallace
Date: July 12, 2005 07:30AM

We have a table with a field of type TEXT storing the time for certain actions (ie. 0:30 - for 0 mins 30 secs, 1:20:00 - for 1 hr 20 mins 0secs). We've come to a point where we'd like to sum the entire field up and get back the total time. I wish we established this filed as a time data type rather than TEXT but that's the way its set up. How would you go about achieving this?

Perhaps I need to convert the TEXT to some other format to get back a more usable value for my PHP code to use?

Thanks.

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