How to get the difference between two dates rounded to hours

Question

I\'ll illustrate what I would like to get in the following example:

\'2010-09-01 03:00:00\' - \'2010-09-01 00:10:00\'

Using TIMEDIFF(

Answer 1

Its a very old thread, but you can also try TIMESTAMPDIFF and give MINUTE, HOUR, SECONDS as the qualifier.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_timestampdiff

Answer 2

If you are using timestamp, this could be the solution in MySQL using SQL.

SELECT TIMESTAMPDIFF(HOUR, '2010-11-29 13:13:55', '2010-11-29 13:16:55') as newtable;

| newtable |

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1 row in set (0.01 sec)