I made a simple table in MySQL to use for start and end times (i.e., for billing a job):
CREATE TABLE `billing` (
`start` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`stop` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`total` int(11) NOT NULL default '0'
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
`start` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`stop` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`total` int(11) NOT NULL default '0'
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
Took me awhile to figure out how to get the actual minutes, but by converting the datetime to unix_timestamp first (then dividing by 60) it worked - yay!
UPDATE billing SET total = (unix_timestamp(stop) - unix_timestamp(start)) / 60
To quickly get the total minutes for the column:
SELECT SUM(total) FROM billing
To show hours:
SELECT SUM(total / 60) FROM billing