And I meant to use MM not mm :-(

0: jdbc:drill:> select current_date, to_char(current_date,'MM/dd/yyyy') from 
(values(1));
+---------------+-------------+
| current_date  |   EXPR$1    |
+---------------+-------------+
| 2016-09-08    | 09/08/2016  |
+---------------+-------------+


--Andries



> On Sep 8, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Andries Engelbrecht <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Looks like Jason just beat me to it :-)
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sep 8, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Andries Engelbrecht <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> You are likely looking for the to_char function to convert date to a 
>> different string format. You can always convert back to a date by using 
>> to_date.
>> 
>> select current_date, to_char(current_date,'mm/dd/yyyy') from (values(1));
>> +---------------+-------------+
>> | current_date  |   EXPR$1    |
>> +---------------+-------------+
>> | 2016-09-08    | 00/08/2016  |
>> +---------------+-------------+
>> 1 row selected (0.376 seconds)
>> 
>> See conversion functions here
>> 
>> http://drill.apache.org/docs/data-type-conversion/#to_char 
>> <http://drill.apache.org/docs/data-type-conversion/#to_char>
>> 
>> 
>> --Andries
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 8, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Kunal Khatua <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Charles,
>>> 
>>> There isn't a single function that would convert to the format you want, 
>>> since that would be a user-specific format and not native to the internal 
>>> Drill representation of the date format. 
>>> 
>>> Treating the output format of 'mm/dd/yyyy' as a string is a solution, using 
>>> the date-time functions that was shared in the link by tokenizing and 
>>> concatenating the date tokens of month,date and year.
>>> 
>>> ~ Kunal
>>> On Thu 8-Sep-2016 12:20:43 PM, Charles Givre <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> Hi Khurram,
>>> I looked through all that already and I didn't see anything that did what I
>>> was wanting to do, or am I missing it?
>>> Thanks,
>>> -- C
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Khurram Faraaz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Here is the link to currently supported datetime functions in Drill
>>>> 
>>>> https://drill.apache.org/docs/date-time-functions-and-arithmetic/#extract 
>>>> <https://drill.apache.org/docs/date-time-functions-and-arithmetic/#extract>
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Charles Givre wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>> I have a question about formatting dates. Let's say that I have some
>>>> data
>>>>> which has dates in format of yyyy-mm-dd but I would like to convert them
>>>> to
>>>>> mm/dd/yyyy format (or whatever). Does Drill have something that is
>>>> roughly
>>>>> equivalent to MySQL's DATE_FORMAT( , ) function
>>>>> whereby you can change the formatting of a date to whatever you want?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> -- Charles
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
> 

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