T-SQL Format seconds as HH:MM:SS time

Question

Is there any tricky way to format seconds like hours:minutes:seconds. For example,

3660

seconds will be displayed as

01h 01m 00s

or

01:01:00

I am aware of the standard way of doing this:

1. Divide all seconds on 3600 to get the hours
2. Divide the rest seconds on 60 to get the minutes
3. The rest are the seconds

I met the following issues:

1. I am not able to create separate function that do this.

2. My code is in view using several CTEs. So, variables can be declare using the CTEs only.

3. I am not able to use the standard solution because I will have results bigger then one day - How to convert Seconds to HH:MM:SS using T-SQL

Answer 1

SELECT RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),Seconds/3600),2)  
    +':' 
    + RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(2),(Seconds%3600)/60),2) 
    +':' 
    + RIGHT('00'+CONVERT(VARCHAR(2),Seconds%60),2) AS [HH:MM:SS] 
FROM table1

Result:

HH:MM:SS
01:01:00
01:03:20
01:10:00
00:10:00
00:01:00
00:00:30
24:00:00
24:06:40

See this SQLFiddle

Answer 2

Try this:

SELECT CONVERT(TIME(0), DATEADD(SS,***seconds***,0),108) as 'FieldName'

will return HH:MM:SS

Example:

46800 seconds = 1:00 PM

FieldName = 13:00:00

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

SELECT cast(seconds/3600 as varchar(6)) +
right(cast(dateadd(second, seconds,0) as time(0)), 6)
FROM <yourtable>