Beastmode - Duration (mins) between 2 Datetime Columns

user07528
user07528
in Dataflows

If I have 2 datetime columns (StartDate & EndDate), how do I find the duration (mins) between the 2 using Beastmode?

 

Example: 

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  • AS
    AS 🔵
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    The TIMEDIFF() function will get you the hh:mm:ss value between the two, and the TIME_TO_SEC() function will give you the number of seconds in time.  Nest those two and divide by 60 seconds to get minutes.  See if something like this will work:

     

    TIME_TO_SEC(TIMEDIFF(`EndTime`,`StartTime`)) / 60

    Aaron
    MajorDomo @ Merit Medical

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  • user02957
    user02957
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    Try this. It works for me

     

    NULLIF(DATEDIFF(`metric_set_initially_assigned_at`,`metric_set_created_at`),0)*24*60+NULLIF(HOUR(`metric_set_initially_assigned_at`-`metric_set_created_at`) ,0)*60

     

     

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  • byusteve
    byusteve

    Have you tried TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE, Col1, Col2)? That works in MySQL, not sure if it will in BeastMode though.

  • byusteve
    byusteve

    Or have you tried TIMESTAMP(Col2) - TIMESTAMP(Col1)? (Although some conversion may be necessary to get it into "minutes"...)

  • user07528
    user07528

    I haven't. Is MySQL the same as Magic ETL? I tried to lookup a video on this but the video on domo university seems to be from an older version.

  • user07528
    user07528

    This worked, thanks.

  • pravaliya
    pravaliya

    Does this work for multiple days that have lapsed? The example I have is:

     

    Start

    4/1/2016 0:23

    End

    4/8/2016 11:45

     

    When I use 

     

    TIME_TO_SEC(TIMEDIFF(`EndTime`,`StartTime`)) / 60

     

    I don't get the expected results.

  • AS
    AS 🔵

    @pravaliya I haven't tried that before, but I would think so.  But only up to a certain point. Time data types have a limit.

     

    TIMEDIFF() will get you the HHH:MM:SS, like 179 hours, 22 min, 0 sec.

     

    So theoretically I think it would calculate that out as (179:22:00 * 3600 s) / 60 s = 10762 minutes .  What are you getting?

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    MajorDomo @ Merit Medical

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  • user08380
    user08380

    I've tried this and i seem to be running into an issue when the difference is greater than 24 hours. it only seems to display 23:59:59. is this a formatting issue? or a limitation of the formula?

  • byusteve
    byusteve

    From what I've found Domo's BeastMode is broken and limiting the delta to what you're seeing. This is not the indended output of the function as per mySQL documentation. I submitted a ticket quite some time ago citing the issue. I had to calculate instead in a mySQL dataflow. Good luck!

  • user07695
    user07695

    I'm having the same issue. I tried combining DATEDIFF and TIMEDIFF like:

     

    DATEDIFF(col1,col2)*24*60 + TIME_TO_SEC(TIMEDIFF(col1,col2))*60

     

    but it still isn't working with dates that are less than 24 hours difference, but fall on different calendar days. i.e 10/09/2017 23:00:00 and 10/10/2017 03:00:00. This should give an answer of 240 minutes, but instead I'm getting 1,680 minutes.

     

    I think I'll have to do these calculations on the backend because Domo just doesn't seem to have the ability to easily do a timestamp difference, but someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

  • JaySethi
    JaySethi

    This code should work for difference between timestamp longer than a day. 

     

    If you had Start Date of 19-Sep-18 2:31:25 and End Date of 20-Sep-18 3:15:22. The time differnce in minutes should be 1483.57( 57 is the seconds).

     

    ((DATEDIFF(`end date`,`start date`)*1440)+(HOUR(TIMEDIFF(`end date`,`start date`))*60)+(MINUTE(TIMEDIFF(`end date`,`start date`)))+((SECOND(TIMEDIFF(`end date`,`start date`)))/100))

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