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Converting to Date

SDCI
7 - Meteor

Hi, So many different date formats & functions to get used to :)

 

Anyone can help me convert the folloiwng string to a date 9/28/2016?  thanks

2016-09-28 09:53:04

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dataMack
12 - Quasar

First - bookmark this page:

https://help.alteryx.com/10.6/index.htm#Reference/DateTimeFunctions.htm

 

Better yet, print it out- specifically the table under the 'Date/Time Specifiers' section - I keep a copy pinned to my office wall next to my monitor.

 

For your example in a formula tool you would set a new date field and use the following to convert your string to an actual date value

datetimeparse([yourStringField],'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

This will preserve the full timestamp should you need that.  If then you only care about keeping it at the day level, you can wrap it in a DateTimeTrim(<date/time>, 'day')

 

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