Description
Converts input, based on format, to datetime data type.Syntax
ToDate(milliseconds)ToDate(datetime_string)ToDate(custom_string, format)ToDate(custom_string, format, timezone)
Arguments
- milliseconds - long. The number of milliseconds from 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z (similar to Unix time except that Unix is the number of seconds instead of milliseconds.)
- datetime_string - string expression in ISO 8601 format. If the value of the expression is not in the ISO 8601 format, an exception is thrown.
- custom_string - datetime value in a string expression in a custom format
- format - format of the custom string. See below for formatting information.
- timezone - timezone information in either UTC offset or location based format.
Format strings
| Symbol | Meaning | Presentation | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | era | text | AD |
| C | century of era (>=0) | number | 20 |
| Y | year of era (>=0) | year | 1996 |
| x | weekyear | year | 1996 |
| w | week of weekyear | number | 27 |
| e | day of week | number | 2 |
| E | day of week | text | Tuesday; Tue |
| y | year | year | 1996 |
| D | day of year | number | 189 |
| M | month of year | month | July; Jul; 07 |
| d | day of month | number | 10 |
| a | halfday of day | text | PM |
| K | hour of halfday (0~11) | number | 0 |
| h | clockhour of halfday (1~12) | number | 12 |
| H | hour of day (0~23) | number | 0 |
| k | clockhour of day (1~24) | number | 24 |
| m | minute of hour | number | 30 |
| s | second of minute | number | 55 |
| S | fraction of second | number | 978 |
| z | time zone | text | Pacific Standard Time; PST |
| Z | time zone offset/id | zone | -0800; -08:00; America/Los_Angeles |
| \‘ | escape character | for a-z/A-Z | T |
| \’\‘ | single quote | literal single quote | ’ |
Examples
ToDate('2013-10-17T23:59:54.432Z')returns datetime value 2013-10-17T23:59:54.432ZToDate(0)returns datetime value 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000ZToDate(1414877400 * 1000)returns datetime value2014-11-01T21:30:00.000Z(takes the Unix timestamp of 1414877400 which is in seconds and multiplies it by 1000 to generate the number of milliseconds that the ToDate function requires)ToDate(1585195200000)returns datetime value2020-03-26T04:00:00.000Z. (When run in X-Console, explicitly cast that number as a Long datatype like this: ToDate(1585195200000L))ToDate('10/17/2013 23:59:54','MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss')returns datetime value2013-10-17T23:59:54.000ZToDate('10/17/2013 23:59:54','MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss','+01:00')returns datetime value2013-10-17T23:59:54.000+01:00ToDate('Tue Jul 02 09:18:52 +0000 2013','EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy')returns datetime value2013-07-02T09:18:52.000Z(This is the datetime format used in Twitter stream).ToDate('2019-03-17T12:11:04 +06:00', 'yyyy-MM-dd\'T\'HH:mm:ss Z')returns2019-03-17T06:11:04.000Z