Time to Second Sum Aggregation

giolaj
giolaj
in Magic ETL

I am having an issue with summing 4 different time to second functions. I have 4 different souces of time in the format of HH:MM : SS which were imported in as text and thus converted to seconds and then minutes. I'm unsure why they cannot sum as they should come out as whole numbers of minutes and when used seperately, they come out as a number. Why am I unable to sum them? 

 

Beastmode function is below: 

SUM((TIME_TO_SEC(`Time1`) / 60),(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time2`) / 60),(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time3`) / 60),(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time4`) / 60))

Best Answer

  • Aditya_Jain
    Aditya_Jain Contributor
    Answer ✓

    Hi Giolaj,

     

    I am not getting into the logical part of the solution, just trying to suggest a syntax here, Please try doing this,
    SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time1`) / 60) +
    SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time2`) / 60) +
    SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time3`) / 60) +
    SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time4`) / 60)

     

    Hope this helps

     

    Regards

    Aditya Jain 

    'Happy to Help'

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  • Aditya_Jain
    Aditya_Jain Contributor
    Answer ✓

    Hi Giolaj,

     

    I am not getting into the logical part of the solution, just trying to suggest a syntax here, Please try doing this,
    SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time1`) / 60) +
    SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time2`) / 60) +
    SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time3`) / 60) +
    SUM(TIME_TO_SEC(`Time4`) / 60)

     

    Hope this helps

     

    Regards

    Aditya Jain 

    'Happy to Help'
  • giolaj
    giolaj

    That worked, everything added up correctly! Thank you!!

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