to_minutes(duration: duration) -> float64

Convert a duration to a number of minutes.

The input is always of type duration, the output is a float64 representing the number of minutes (whole and fractions) of that duration.

Domain

This is a scalar function (calculates a single output value for a single input row).

Categories

• Time

Examples

make_col minutes:to_minutes(stopTime - startTime)

Assuming stopTime and startTime are timestamps, subtracting them yields a duration. That duration is then converted to number of minutes using to_minutes.