[xquery-talk] [Dumbo question] allow us to add four minutes to a time

[Geert Josten]

Hi Jidanni,

The approach sounds right. The trick is to use dayTimeDurations to add the
4 minutes. You can do that like this:

xs:time("12:34:00") + xs:dayTimeDuration("PT4M")

Kind regards,
Geert

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> Onderwerp: [xquery-talk] [Dumbo question] allow us to add four minutes
to a
> time
>
> Dear Sirs, Gentlemen,
> Let us add four minutes to a time.
>
> let $a:="12:34", $b:=4
>
> How do I return "12:38"?
> The bus will go by my house 38 minutes past noon.
>
> The documentation is so hard to search through.
>
> OK, first I must apparently append :00 to the time,
> then convert the type,
> then surround the 4 with P...
> then convert its type,
> then add them together,
> then convert the result back into a string,
> is that so?
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