Date and time diffrence calculations

Dear Experts,
I have a doubt regarding the date and time diffrence calculation please help me out.
This is regarding the report called u201CVehicle tracking systemu201D. The purpose of this report is to give the user information like how many vehicles have come in and how much time each vehicle has parked in the filling in the refinery and also the average time taken for a customer.
For this we have created 4 info objects called
1)     Park In Time
2)     Park In Date
3)     Gate Out Time
4)     Gate Out Date
We have created a routine which calculate the difference in Vehicle Park In Date & Time to Gate Out Time and Date
The Time difference is number format.
Example: For Vehicle1
Park in Date and Park in Time are         27.11.2008 and 17:43:35
Gate out Date and Gate out Time are     29.11.2008 and 09:36:16
Here routine will calculate the difference in the above date and time and the output is like this     1,155.138,000 (i.e. 1day, 15 hours 51 mins and 38 seconds) that means the vehicle has parked for 1 day and 15 hours etc.
But we require the output like    1 day, 15:51:38
Please give us the solution how to go about it.
Thanks in advance,
venkat

Hi,
I think in regard to your problem, the solution will be to make the variables in the query runtime by the replacement path variable.
Please find the below link, its very much self explanatory and in regard to your problem.
Hope it helps!
[http://sd-solutions.com/documents/SDS_BW_Replacement%20Path%20Variables.html]
Regards,
Neha.

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