{
  "name": "minute",
  "type": "function",
  "description": "Extracts the minutes part from a datetime or time, or the number of minutes from an interval.",
  "variants": [
  { "variant": "Time variant",
      "variant_description": "Extracts the minutes part from a time or datetime.",
      "arguments": [ {"arg":"datetime","description":"a time or datetime value"}],
      "examples": [ { "expression":"minute('2012-07-22T13:24:57')", "returns":"24"}] },
      {
      "variant": "Interval variant",
      "variant_description": "Calculates the length in minutes of an interval.",
      "arguments": [ {"arg":"interval","description":"interval value to return number of minutes from"}],
      "examples": [ { "expression":"minute(tointerval('3 minutes'))", "returns":"3"},
                    { "expression":"minute(age('2012-07-22T00:20:00','2012-07-22T00:00:00'))", "returns":"20"},
                    { "expression":"minute(age('2012-01-01','2010-01-01'))", "returns":"1051200"}]
  }]
}