Storing Business Hours in a Database

Question

I\'m currently trying to work out the best way to store a business\' hours of operation in a database.

For example:

Business A has the following hours of ope

Answer 1

Most of results works fine for the given scenario, but it wont be as effective if you have periods that runs through multiple days, eg. 8:00 AM ~ 2:00 AM, then I recommend using a multi period design.

   0: [
         id: 1,
         business_id: 1,
         open: true,
         day: 1,
         periods: [
             0: { open: 08:00, close: 23:59 }
         ]
      ],
   1: [
         id: 2,
         business_id: 1,
         open: true,
         day: 2,
         periods: [
             0: { open: 00:00, close: 02:00 }
             1: { open: 08:00, close: 23:59 }
         ]
      ]