Looks like Jason just beat me to it :-)
> On Sep 8, 2016, at 3:15 PM, Andries Engelbrecht <[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 >>>> >>> >
