in reply to Getting avg start time

The problem is that the time interval between $time1 and $time3 exceeds 24 hours.

The average calculation is CORRECT. Unless your job runs over 24 hours, I think your $time3 value should be 2007-08-09 , instead of 2007-08-10.

With that value, the average time Shows 1:00:00.

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