Calculating Time

Hi
Is it any function to get the time difference ??
I have a table timesheets which has from_time and to_time to store the time .I am using Varchar2(5) ,with the format of 99.99 to store the timesheet times.
if I want to get the time difference between from_time and to_time how to do that ?? is there any function to do that ??
For Example
From_time to_time
12.15 13.00
if you do difference calculation it will give .85 ,which is wrong , I am expecting .45 asif it's time. how to do that ?? Can anybody help me .
Thanks
S.j.k

You are expecting .45? .45 of what? Certainly not an hour - that would be 27 minutes.
I would certainly recommend storing these values in a date datatype, not a varchar2, but...assuming your times do not cross days, you can get the difference in minutes by converting the times to dates:
sql>select (to_date('13.00', 'hh24.mi') - to_date('12.15', 'hh24.mi')) * 1440 diff_minutes
2 from dual;
DIFF_MINUTES
45

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Calculating time lapsed using Now function

I have a column named Time Lapsed which is the difference between the present time and the event occured time. How will I use now() function to evaluate. let's say I have a datetime field called 'EventTime'. I tried the following calculation
now() - EventTime but doesn't seem to work. Please advise.
Thanks

Hi Payal,
I created a data object calculated field "Now" : Now()
and a calculated field TimeSpan : Now - EventTime
where EventTime field is a datetime field which gives when the event occured.
Issues faces is the TimeSpan field should keep ticking like a Stopwatch, but this one only gives the value on loading.
How will I get around this. Any use case?

Calculating Time

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