Re: Work hours?

On 8/27/19 3:27 PM, stan wrote:
> I am just starting to explore the power of PostgreSQL's time and date
> functionality. I must say they seem very powerful.
>
> I need to write a function that, given a month, and a year as input returns
> the "work hours" in that month. In other words something like
>
> 8 * the count of all days in the range Monday to Friday) within that
> calendar month.
>
> Any thoughts as to the best way to approach this?

Use generate_series:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/functions-srf.html

to generate all the days in the month.

Loop over the days and use EXTRACT:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-EXTRACT

to find the dates with a dow(The day of the week as Sunday (0) to
Saturday (6)) or isodow(The day of the week as Monday (1) to Sunday (7))
that falls in Mon-Fri and add to counter.

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