Round date to 10 minutes interval

Question

I have a DATE column that I want to round to the next-lower 10 minute interval in a query (see example below).

I managed to do it by truncating the seconds

Answer 1

I generally hate doing date -> character -> date conversions when it's not necessary. I'd rather use numbers.

select trunc((sysdate - trunc(sysdate))*60*24,-1)/(60*24)+trunc(sysdate) from dual;     

This extracts the minutes from the current day, truncates them down to the 10-minute interval, and then adds them back in to make it a date again. Of course, you can replace sysdate with whatever date you want. It trusts implicit conversions a lot more than I want but at least it'll work for any NLS date format.

Answer 2

Not necessarily any better, but another method:

WITH test_data AS (
        SELECT TO_DATE('2010-01-01 10:00:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') d FROM dual
  UNION SELECT TO_DATE('2010-01-01 10:05:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') d FROM dual
  UNION SELECT TO_DATE('2010-01-01 10:09:59', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') d FROM dual
  UNION SELECT TO_DATE('2010-01-01 10:10:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') d FROM dual
  UNION SELECT TO_DATE('2099-01-01 10:00:33', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') d FROM dual
)
-- #end of test-data
SELECT
  d, TRUNC(d) + FLOOR((d-TRUNC(d))*24*6)/(24*6)
FROM test_data

Answer 3

You could take the returned value as a string and substring the left side up to the last minute digit and replace it with a 0. I wouldn't exactly say thats better unless you provide some kind of metric.

Answer 4

To return the next upper 10 minute interval, I used the following query. I hope it'll be useful because I couldn't simply do a

trunc(sysdate, 'mi') + mod(EXTRACT(minute FROM cast(sysdate as timestamp)), 10) / (24 * 60)

I did this and it worked for me.

select 
case when mod(EXTRACT(minute FROM cast(sysdate as timestamp)),5) between 1 and 4
      then trunc(sysdate,'mi')+((5*TRUNC(EXTRACT(minute FROM cast(sysdate as timestamp))/5,
0)+5)-EXTRACT(minute FROM cast(sysdate as timestamp)))/1440
      else trunc(sysdate,'mi')
end
from dual

This is based on this post.

Answer 5

I think to solve this there's a much easier and faster way to round to a next lower 10 seconds, 1 Minute, 10 Minute etc. interval. Try to manipulate your timestamp as a string using SUBSTR() like this:

SELECT 
SUBSTR(datetime(d),1,18)||'0' AS Slot10sec, 
SUBSTR(datetime(d),1,17)||'00' AS Slot1min, 
SUBSTR(datetime(d),1,15)||'0:00' AS Slot10min, 
SUBSTR(datetime(d),1,14)||'00:00' AS Slot1h, 
MY_VALUE
FROM MY_TABLE;

Answer 6

select
  trunc(sysdate, 'mi')
  - numtodsinterval(mod(EXTRACT(minute FROM cast(sysdate as timestamp)), 10), 'minute')
from dual;

or even

select
  trunc(sysdate, 'mi')
  - mod(EXTRACT(minute FROM cast(sysdate as timestamp)), 10) / (24 * 60)
from dual;