Convert text of type "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" to datetime

Question

Hi Team, 
 
 I have a csv in which I am receiving "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" as text in one of the columns, Is there anyway to cast to Appian datetime type 
 
 Regards 
 Bihitak

agam · Accepted Answer

Try using parsedate function. 
 This is available in plugin: Date and Time Utilities 
 Eg: parsedate("11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT") 
 Output:

11/05/2021 07:08 GMT+00:00 (Date and Time)

Naresh · Answer

As mike mentioned you can do this using combination of Appian Functions. You can try this logic it might work for your scenario. This is just a reference you may need to tweak based on your requirement 
 a!localVariables(
 local!dateTextValue: "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT",
 local!splitDateTextValues: split("11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT", " "),
 local!month: displayvalue(
 local!splitDateTextValues[2],
 {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "April", "May", "June", "July", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"},
 {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12},
 ""
 ),
 local!splitTime: split(local!splitDateTextValues[4], ":"),
 local!dateTimeValue: datetime(
 tointeger(local!splitDateTextValues[3]),
 tointeger(local!month),
 tointeger(local!splitDateTextValues[1]),
 tointeger(local!splitTime[1]),
 tointeger(local!splitTime[2]),
 tointeger(local!splitTime[3]),
 ),
 local!dateTimeValue
)

Mike Schmitt · Answer

Using a combination of Appian functions you could develop an Expression Rule that consumes the date text string in question and returns a valid Appian DateTime value. It would require a bit of parsing on your part. 
 The starting hint I have is, the "datetime()" funciton consumes "year, month, day, hour, minute, second". You would be able to use existing functions to break up the incoming text into parts, convert the month text to a numeric value, and pass them all into that rule. You would want to test it against a wide variety of example inputs to make sure it returns the expected results in all such cases.

Convert text of type "11 May 2021 07:08:12 GMT" to datetime

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