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Date Time Problems

SVIGGIANO
6 - Meteoroid

I must be misunderstanding the syntax or output of a few date time calculations that I want to make.  I have two fields in my incoming data that look like they are date (Run_End_Date) and time (Run_End_Time).  (Problem duplicatesl for Run Start Date and Time also).  

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All I want to do is add them together, get the resulting DateTime field and go on my merry way.  At first, I tried just adding them (Run_End_DateTime = Run Start Date + Run Start Time, but that didn't work. Then I tried to combine them using the ToDateTime function

ToDateTime=([Run_End_Date]+[Run_End_Time])

 

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Things seem to be looking good there but when I look at the output of the calculation -no time values are shown.

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So I believe I am using that command improperly.  What should I do, to get a DateTime value from a Date and a Time value (or did I trip up earlier)?

Thanking the community in advance and hoping some day I can return the favor.

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atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @SVIGGIANO 

 

Can you provide some sample data to check it out.

anjaliaithal
7 - Meteor

Here's what I understand. You have Date in one column and time in another. You want to combine the two to one column. Please see if this helps.

RolandSchubert
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Hi @SVIGGIANO ,

 

if I got you right. there is a "DateTimeAdd" function, that could help by adding the hours, minutes and seconds from the time field to the date. I've attached a sample workflow. 

 

Let me know if it works for you.

 

Best,

 

Roland

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