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I have a column of data, several actually, that are date, time and timezone output but will not transform to that data type. I presume this is due to a decimal being present in the data.
All of my columns of date/time/timezone data are currently text columns with data identical in format to
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS:mmmssssss +0000 UTC
How do I properly transform all of these date/time/timezone columns to useable date/time format and data types?
Any thoughts @lbendlin or anyone on how I might acheive this?
Thank you!
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@parry2kThis does not work, as none of the date and time options would apply to the column type. I was able to get this resolved however, playing with OpenAI responses. All data in the columns has +0000 UTC. What I did was a find and replace "+0000 UTC" with "" or a null value. This removed the +0000 UTC and left only the time values. I was then able to chose the appropriate date/time for data type and was fixed!
@lbendlinI did not place this as I cannot copy and paste the data from that environment. I did share a sample of the format for all values, however. Thank you for your respones, you are awesome!
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmmssssss +0000 UTC
or
2023-10-13 10:53:55.123456789 +0000 UTC
@parry2kThis does not work, as none of the date and time options would apply to the column type. I was able to get this resolved however, playing with OpenAI responses. All data in the columns has +0000 UTC. What I did was a find and replace "+0000 UTC" with "" or a null value. This removed the +0000 UTC and left only the time values. I was then able to chose the appropriate date/time for data type and was fixed!
@lbendlinI did not place this as I cannot copy and paste the data from that environment. I did share a sample of the format for all values, however. Thank you for your respones, you are awesome!
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmmssssss +0000 UTC
or
2023-10-13 10:53:55.123456789 +0000 UTC
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@eyelikedata2 first convert it to datetimezone data type and then convert it to datetime.
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