T-SQL Format seconds as HH:MM:SS time

gotqn picture gotqn · Nov 1, 2012 · Viewed 19.7k times · Source

Is there any tricky way to format seconds like hours:minutes:seconds. For example,

3660

seconds will be displayed as

01h 01m 00s

or

01:01:00

I am aware of the standard way of doing this:

  1. Divide all seconds on 3600 to get the hours
  2. Divide the rest seconds on 60 to get the minutes
  3. The rest are the seconds

I met the following issues:

  1. I am not able to create separate function that do this.

  2. My code is in view using several CTEs. So, variables can be declare using the CTEs only.

  3. I am not able to use the standard solution because I will have results bigger then one day - How to convert Seconds to HH:MM:SS using T-SQL

Answer

Himanshu Jansari picture Himanshu Jansari · Nov 1, 2012
SELECT RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),Seconds/3600),2)  
    +':' 
    + RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(2),(Seconds%3600)/60),2) 
    +':' 
    + RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(2),Seconds%60),2) AS [HH:MM:SS] 
FROM table1

Result:

HH:MM:SS
01:01:00
01:03:20
01:10:00
00:10:00
00:01:00
00:00:30
24:00:00
24:06:40

See this SQLFiddle