Duration formats supported in Zoho DataPrep

Duration is the difference between two time values. A duration format can be formed using different format strings such as D, H, SSSSSS, etc.

Zoho DataPrep supports the following format strings:

Format String	Description	Range
D	Indicates the Days	0 to 36500000
H	Indicates the Hours	00 to 23 Note: The range for duration in hours is 0 to 876000000
m	Indicates the Minutes	00 to 59
s	Indicates the Seconds	00 to 59 Note: The range for duration in seconds is 0 to 3153600000000
SSS	Indicates the Milliseconds	00 to 999
SSSSSS	Indicates the Microseconds	0 to 999999

You can also construct your own duration formats using the formats strings and delimiters. You can select a predefined format, choose to modify it, or create formats in the Change duration format, and Change data type transforms. You can use the % symbol to separate the format strings.

For example, %D.%H:%m:%s.%SSSSSS where %D is number of days, %H is number of hours, %m is number of minutes, %s is number of seconds, and %SSSSSS is number of microseconds. You can add any literals and delimiters in the duration formats. For example, in the duration, 201 jours 11.12.21, the days literal is used in French and a dot(.) is used as a delimiter.

Supported duration formats

Zoho DataPrep supports a wide range of duration formats. Here are a few examples of the supported duration formats in DataPrep.

Duration only

Formats	Examples
%H:%m:%s	301.21:12:00
%H:%m:%s.%SSS	301.21:12:00.321
%H:%m:%s.%SSSSSS	201 11:12:21.000001
%H hrs %m mins %s secs	11 hrs 12 mins 21 secs
%H hours %m minutes %s seconds %SSSSSS	1 hours 2 minutes 1 seconds 910001
%s	222222345678
%s.%SSS	1234523.156
%s.%SSSSSS	12345.999999

Duration with days

Formats	Example
%D %H:%m:%s	201 11:12:21
%D %H:%m:%s.%SSS	201 11:12:21.91
%D days %H:%m:%s.%SSSSSS	201 days 11:12:21.000111
%D days %H hrs %m mins %s secs	201 days 11 hrs 12 mins 21 secs
%D days %H hrs %m mins %s secs %SSS	10092 days 11 hrs 12 mins 21 secs 901
%D days %H hours %m minutes %s seconds %SSSSSS	12 days 1 hours 2 minutes 1 seconds 910001
%D days %H hours %m minutes %s seconds %SSS	12 days 1 hours 2 minutes 1 seconds 910

Note: Only the predefined formats displayed under the Duration only and Duration with days sections will be auto inferred on import. However, you can create your own formats using the available formats strings. Click here to know how to create duration formats.

Invalid duration formats

A duration format is invalid if one or more of the following conditions are not met:

The format cannot be empty.
You can use a string only once in a format.

For example, in the duration format, 301.201.21:12:00, the duration is repeated twice which makes it an invalid duration format.

You can use either microsecond or millisecond in a duration format and not both.

For example, in the duration format, 12 days 1 hours 2 minutes 1.911 seconds 1.910001 seconds, both microseconds and milliseconds are used which renders it an invalid duration format.

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