How to store only time; not date and time? How to store only time; not date and time? sql sql

How to store only time; not date and time?


You could try the INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND data type but it won't save you any disk space ... it is very suitable for this purpose though.

create table t1 (time_of_day interval day (0) to second(0));insert into t1 values (TO_DSINTERVAL('0 23:59:59'));select date '2009-05-13'+time_of_dayfrom   t1;

11 bytes though.


Your best bet would probably be storing "seconds since midnight" as a number field.

SELECT to_char( SYSDATE, 'SSSSS' ) FROM dual;


You can extract the time from a date as a string like this:

to_char(sysdate,'HH.MI.SS')

but there is no time-only data type that will help you save space.