Date field

[farrokhp]

I want to add couple of minutes to a date field in a table. How can I do that? Thanks.

Somthing like : New_date := to_char(hire_date) + '00:00:05'; ???

[pwoneill]

When you do math with dates, it adds days. Eg,

select sysdate + 1 from dual;

Will give you tomorrow.

If you want to add 5 minutes you'd have to do it as a fraction of a day. 24 hours in a day x 60 minutes an hour = 1440 minutes a day.

select sysdate + 5/1440 from dual;

will be 5 minutes ahead.