I am trying to enter a value for a timeofday field using SuiteScript2.0 but I keep getting an error.
"type\":\"error.SuiteScriptError\",\"name\":\"INVALID_FLD_VALUE\",\"message\":\"You have entered an Invalid Field Value 1:00 pm for the following field: somerandomfieldid\"
I tried the following,
1:00PM
1:00 PM
1:00 pm
13:00
None of these seem to work for this field type.
What is the correct format for time fields.
The any date/time fields for 2.0 need to be in in a Date object.
you can use for format module to format the string to the correct format.
format.parse({value, type , timezone?});
value is your date/time value;
type is the equal to the type of the field;
timezone is optional, but it will set the timezone of the server;
The format module will return a date on success, and string no failure, at least from my experience.
The format module only accepts correctly formatted string for the field type, like for me time has to be h:mm a, and date has to be m/d/yyyy
you can use util module to check if the value from format module is date.
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In Snowflake, I have a column in a created table called "Date1", that has dates formatted as AUTO (ex. 2022-06-17). I am trying to query that column, but need the date formatted as 'MM/DD/YYYY', yet everything I've tried returns an error of some kind.
When I try date(Date1, 'MM/DD/YYYY) the error says that it can't parse 2022-06-17 for MM/DD/YYYY. When I try to_date(Date1 [MM/DD/YYYY]) or try_to_date(Date1 [MM/DD/YYYY]) the error says it doesn't recognize MM.
Any thoughts?
If you're trying to display the date using a specific format, you're converting to a varchar rather than a date:
select to_varchar(current_date, 'MM/DD/YYYY');
If you're trying to compare a column with a date to a formatted string in MM/DD/YYYY format then:
select current_date = try_to_date('08/04/2022', 'MM/DD/YYYY');
You should try to provide correct format to match 2022-06-17 literal:
SELECT TRY_TO_DATE(Date1, 'YYYY-MM-DD')
FROM tab_name;
Your column is already of type DATE. TO_DATE() and TRY_TO_DATE() convert non-date formats (string, integer) to a DATE type. They are not a means to format your DATE for presentation.
Date data type and presentation format are indepent.
You can alter your session to change the default display format of a date, but the underlying representation in the database remains the same.
alter session set DATE_INPUT_FORMAT='MM/DD/YYYY';
alter session set DATE_OUTPUT_FORMAT='MM/DD/YYYY';
select <col_name> from table; -- Now will show as MM/DD/YYYY for date columns
I have a source table in databricks which has a field called date. I found that the date is like a timestamp. For example, it's data is date = 2021-07-09 00:07 , date = 2021-12-21 09:19.
The above date is not a full timestamp, so I casted it as a string and I got the following results
cast(date as string) = 2021-07-09 00:07:09.529, 2021-12-21 09:19:21.019
I would like to know why casting it to a string is giving the milli seconds and is there any to_timestamp like function to cast the date instead of casting as string.
Can the date casted as string be compared with other dates casted as string?
if the date field has timestamp, then what you see is just visual representation that may omit some non-essential details - internally it's stored in more compact representation, like, long representing number of milliseconds. But when you do cast to string, then this compact representation is used & you get all details.
To cast timestamp type to date type, just do cast(date as date). If you want to convert string into date or timestamp, just use to_date or to_timestamp functions that allow to specify a format string that will be used for parsing of string components. And if you want to convert date or timestamp field into string and control the format of the string, then you need to look onto date_format function.
P.S. You can always refer to the SQL Reference that is the part of official Databricks documentation
I am using this
CAST(NotifDate as date) between #FromNotifDate AND #ToNotifDate
but NotifDate is saved as varchar in table but FromNotifDate AND ToNotifDate are of Date type.
When I pass these parameters 08/06/2014 and 20/04/2020 09:40:17 it doesn't work and throws error i.e.
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
but if I pass 08/06/2014 and 10/04/2020 09:40:17 it works.
Your current database locale settings are probably set to en-US or another where the date format is MM/dd/yyyy.
That makes 08/06/2014 and 10/04/2014 valid dates (but they are 6th of August and 4th of October, not 8th of June and 10th of April!), but not 20/04/2020.
To use a different date format, you can use CONVERT, with the proper style code (I believe it's 103 for dd/MM/yyyy (see documentation)
So, this should work for you : CONVERT(date, NotifDate, 103)
Note that, as a general recommendation, it would be beneficial that you input NotifDate as a proper SQL Date in your DB in the first place, if possible, to avoid having to do conversion like this in your queries.
Also, there the unambiguous and international standard ISO-8601 format yyyy-MM-dd which should be always parsed correctly by CAST, I recommend using it over any localized format where you can in your code infrastructure.
System having default date format is "MM/dd/yyyy" so while you set "10/04/2020 09:40:17" value so system throm an Error- out of range Error,
-- The conversion of a varchar data type
-- to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value.
select cast('20/04/2020 09:40:17' as datetime)
-- get the current session date_format
select date_format
from sys.dm_exec_sessions
where session_id = ##spid
-- set the dateformat for the current session
set dateformat dmy
-- this should work
select cast('20/04/2020 09:40:17' as datetime)
I am try to convert string value to date. The string has this format : yyyy-MM-dd. But when I try to convert using select values (in meta-date I selected fildname, type = Date and currency = dd/MM/yyyy I got this error :
String : couldn't convert string [2017-01-30] to a date using format [yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.SSS] on offset location 4
If I do in calculator step : Create a new field, Final_date as a Copy of field A; on Field A put the name of your input string; Data type is date and on Conversion mask choose the yyyy-MM-dd format (you don't have to pick one from the dropdown menu, you can write your own). I got the same error.
I am using the Pentaho Data Intagration 9.
I am try to convert the string format in yyyy-MM-dd to date type format in dd/MM/yyyy. For this case, how to convert string to date ?
When converting from string to date you specify the source format that the string is using, so in this case yyyy-MM-dd. That should be in the format selection list, but you can also manually type in any format needed.
Once the field is in date format, it will be correctly output to most database types. For files, you can define the new format (dd/MM/yyyy) in the output step like Text File Output or Excel Writer. Alternatively, you convert the date back into a string with the desired format using Select Values.
I was wondering if there is any possibility to write a VBA code where the column A should always have a date format like this: 12.10.2017 (not 12/10/2017 or 12-10-2017). If anything else is written in the column A like "12" or "car" the entry should be deleted. It has to accept only the date format mentioned above.
I used data validation for this, with length 10 and the date format to take only "." into consideration, but I want to do it as a VBA code instead.
Thanks!
A valid date is a long representing the number of days since the 1st january 1900. So a valid date would be 45603. You can display this date in any format you wish using the format codes d, m and y . So to display the date as dd.mm.yyyy then set that numberformat in the cells in column A. Your problem though is that Excel will only accept a date entered as either a long or in a built in date format (using /, - or space as a separator). You could allow the users to enter a text string in the format dd.mm.yyyy and then convert that string into a date and then reject it if the conversion didn't result in a valid date - but wouldn't it be easier to just train your users to enter dates correctly?