I would like to convert some dates stored as a string to a date. The data looks as follows: 26APR2017:06:01:44. I would prefer it to be in any regular date format.
Can someone please help me to convert this to a date format? I'm sure the dateparse function is useful here and have used it before but am unsure how to adjust it for this particular data.
You can use date_parse() to parse and date() to cast timestamp retunred from parse function to date.
select date_parse('26APR2017:06:01:44','%d%b%Y:%H:%i:%s') will give you
2017-04-26 06:01:44.000
select date(date_parse('26APR2017:06:01:44','%d%b%Y:%H:%i:%s')) will give you
2017-04-26
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I upload data to Google Cloud Storage from CSV. The data in CSV is in dd/mm/yyyy format (in my example it is 05/09/2022 or 5th of September) and according to the metadata settings, I can see the default date is mm/dd/yyyy and it reads the date as 9th of May. How can I solve this issue and make GCP to read the date in dd/mm/yyyy format?
You can do this at the query level only. There is no way to change the format directly.
Also as mentioned above in comments, the custom time field does not represent the date format of the underlying data. You can refer to this document.
According to the documentation,format string represents the textual form of date and time and contains separate format elements that are applied left-to-right. Load the csv with all date columns as string, and parse them manually as date in a query.
Additionally you can check this stackoverflow link1 & link2
I have a column "Sta" type date/time, and I want to change the format of it to be like this format "YYYYMM", or "MM-YYYY" into a new column.
and this error appears to me each time I want to change the format of the column into the new one !!!!
any idea how can I change the format by using the Format Function?
It's explicitly stated in the documentation that FORMAT function is not supported for use in DirectQuery mode. Also take a look at DAX formula compatibility in DirectQuery mode article.
The format function you use expect just one row. With a Max() function before it will work.
However, what you are looking for is in the relationship tab:
Click on your date column then go to Properties > Date time Format > Custom Format:
Here you can type in your custom format.
I am trying to convert a date column to text without changing the date format. I am currently doing this by changing the formatting of that column under the modelling header. The date format is currently DD/MM/YYYY which is what I want. However, when I change the formatting to text it changes the format to MM/DD/YYYY.
My regional settings are set to English(United Kingdom). Any other suggestions as to how I can have exactly the same column but as text rather than date?
I'd recommend the FORMAT function in a calculated column:
FORMAT(Table1[Date], "dd/mm/yyyy")
I've recently started using SAS Enterprise guide and would like to convert the date "01MAR2014" to "MAR 2014". I've been googling but unfortunately no luck.
I've tried the following however it just returns an
SELECT input(put(StartDate,EURDFMYw.),9.) AS Order_DDD_YY
Does anyone know how to convert this?
If your date is a SAS date, i.e. a numeric with date format applied then you can change the display by using the monyy5. format instead. Note that this will create a character variable that will no longer sort properly in reports/datasets, it will sort alphabetically instead of a date order.
put(startDate, monyy7.) as Order_DDD_YY
Otherwise you can apply the format instead of converting it.
I am working with a dataset in SAS, containing many variables.
One of these variables is a DATE variable and it has a date/time format. It looks like this:
12FEB97:00:00:00
27MAR97:00:00:00
14APR97:00:00:00
Now the thing is that I would like to convert this variable into a NUMERIC format. And I would like to get the following result (based on the previously shown 3 examples):
199702
199703
199704
Do you have any ideas how to do it? I already read through many docs, pdfs etc. but still could not find a proper solution yet.
Thank you very much!
First, you need to extract the date from your datetime variable. You can use the datepart function:
date = datepart(var);
Then, you want to put this variable (which will still be coded as a date number) into a number that you can read the year and month. Do this with putn:
date_as_num = putn(date,'yymmn6.');