Why does the minus operator give different result than the TIMESTAMPDIFF() function in mysql?
- by f3r3nc
Since TIMESTAMP in mysql is stored as a 32bit value representing the time interval from 1970-jan-1 0:00:00 in seconds, I assumed that using minus (-) operator on TIMESTAMP values would give the difference of these values in seconds. Actually not:
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:30:00") - TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:29:59") |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 41.000000 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.05 sec)
mysql> select timestampdiff(SECOND,TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:30:00"),TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:29:59"));
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| timestampdiff(SECOND,TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:30:00"),TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:29:59")) |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| -1 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
mysql> select TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:30:00") - TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:30:01") ;
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:30:00") - TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:30:01") |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| -1.000000 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:30:00") - TIMESTAMP("2010-04-02 10:31:00") |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| -100.000000 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
It seems like one minute difference is 100 instead of 60.
Why is this?