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 >>>>> >>>> >> >
