That is really frustrating because that timestamp is literally in an ISO
8601 format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

It would be nice if these formats just worked by default.




On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 5:05 AM Charles Givre <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Drill Devs
> I'm having a small issue interpreting timestamps from data.  The data in
> question is in both CSV and parquet format, and has dates encoded as
> strings in the following format:
>
> 1998-07-14T04:00:00
>
> The issue I'm encountering is dealing with the literal T.  The JODA
> instructions state that you can escape a literal with a single quote.
> IE:
>
> yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:MM:00
>
> However, the issue here is that since Drill does not allow double quotes,
> all these need to be escaped.
>
> yyyy-MM-dd\'T\'hh:MM:00
>
> But... this just doesn't seem to work.  I'm using the TO_TIMESTAMP()
> function.  Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> -- C

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