Converting Time Difference to Human-Readable Time

Hello everyone,
I just posted a thread about an hour ago on how to get the difference between the current time and two tables. My results are as follows:
Call Moddate Modtime Age
Open 2009-04-09 13:47:08 2.57
The age is this command:
round((sysdate - to_date ( moddate | | modtime, 'YYYY-MM-DDHH24:MI:SS'))*1440, 2)
Is there a way to convert the result (2.57) to a HH24:MI:SS format?

Hi,
Solomon Yakobson posted a solution in that other thread that does exactly that.
with t as (
select '2009-04-09' ModDate,'13:48:30' ModTime from dual
select numtodsinterval(sysdate - to_date(ModDate || ' ' || ModTime,'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'),'day') duration
from tIf it produces more output than you'll ever need, use SUBSTR (or some similar function) to get only the part you're interested in.

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Someone suggested this is a better place for my question:
Hi
I need to display the difference in time - every day for different time ranges,
Example 1-2 pm, 4-5 pm, 7-8 pm. And I need the time difference in 2 dates in the past week for each of these ranges everyday.
example
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One way to achieve this is to have multiple unions for each day and each time range.
Example:
select
from
where dt_tm between
to_date(to_char((sysdate-5),'mm/dd/yyyy')||' 13:00','mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')and
to_date(to_char((sysdate-5),'mm/dd/yyyy')||' 14:00','mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
union
select
from
where dt_tm between
to_date(to_char((sysdate-5),'mm/dd/yyyy')||' 16:00','mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')and
to_date(to_char((sysdate-5),'mm/dd/yyyy')||' 17:00','mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
union
select
from
where dt_tm between
to_date(to_char((sysdate-5),'mm/dd/yyyy')||' 19:00','mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')and
to_date(to_char((sysdate-5),'mm/dd/yyyy')||' 20:00','mm/dd/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
This will give me the required information for only one day - and that is for sysdate-5.
I will have same nyumber of unions for each day.
Is there a better way to accomplish the same?
Any help appreciated.
Thx!

Hi
Sorry for the late response but better late than never:::
I have gotten the answer of getting data for previous 5 days. I have changed the time between statement and is given below(*).
Here is a reply to all the questions you had asked in response to my questions.
What data you have? What parameters are you going to input?
I have already given sample data in my post.
There are no input parameters.
You are talking about the difference - between what is this difference?
Difference is the difference between 2 timestamp datatypes in 2 different tables (as you may see in the query)
The field diff - is it varchar2 like '1-2 pm' or what?
I didnt understand your question. What do you get when you subtract two timestamp datatypes - that should be the datatype - if I have understood your question. Not sure if thats what you asked.
But IMHO it's impossible to get such a result, of course, if dt_tm in the query is the same as Date in the result!
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I need starting previous 5 days till sysdate.
Second is between 4 and 5 pm again for sysdate-5.
I need starting previous 5 days till sysdate.
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