Convert DateTime text string to type DateTime

RE: Convert DateTime text string to type DateTime

Martin Gordon — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 23:18:46 GMT

datetime(split(split("2022-09-12 03:53:33"," ")[1],"-")[1],
split(split("2022-09-12 03:53:33"," ")[1],"-")[2],
split(split("2022-09-12 03:53:33"," ")[1],"-")[3],
split(split("2022-09-12 03:53:33"," ")[2],":")[1],
split(split("2022-09-12 03:53:33"," ")[2],":")[2],
split(split("2022-09-12 03:53:33"," ")[2],":")[3])

Essence of Harshit's solution. You'd think something like this would be built in!

RE: Convert DateTime text string to type DateTime

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:31:16 GMT

Also: this question gets asked all the time, and I also usually suggest folks who will need to be doing this occasionally, implement a shared expression rule to handle the conversion.

RE: Convert DateTime text string to type DateTime

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 05:12:07 GMT

a!localVariables(
  local!dateAndTime: split("2022-09-12 03:53:33", " "),
  local!date: split(local!dateAndTime[1], "-"),
  local!time: split(local!dateAndTime[2], ":"),
  datetime(
    local!date[1],
    local!date[2],
    local!date[3],
    local!time[1],
    local!time[2],
    local!time[3]
  )
)