SQLite: express the difference as days, hours, minutes between two given dates

Question

I am trying to express the difference of two given dates in days, hours, and minutes (like 1 day, 6 hours, 17 minutes.) as SQLite query output. I have entryin a

Answer 1

You can try something like this:

SELECT
    CAST((strftime('%s', '2011-11-10 11:46') - strftime('%s', '2011-11-09 09:00')) / (60 * 60 * 24) AS TEXT) || ' ' ||
    CAST(((strftime('%s', '2011-11-10 11:46') - strftime('%s', '2011-11-09 09:00')) % (60 * 60 * 24)) / (60 * 60) AS TEXT) || ':' ||
    CAST((((strftime('%s', '2011-11-10 11:46') - strftime('%s', '2011-11-09 09:00')) % (60 * 60 * 24)) % (60 * 60)) / 60 AS TEXT);