How put together "Date" and "Time" columns into a "Date and Time" column using transforms

rado98

Wath transform formula/method do I need to use to create a "Date and Time" from a "Date" column and a "Time" column?

 

For example

 

I     Date           I      Time           I

I   1/1/2016       I      2:00 PM     I

 

 

Into:

I    Date andTime     I

I   1/1/2016 2:00PM I

 

 

rado98

There is probably a less convoluted way of doing it but thisis how I managed to getting it done:

 

Create the following individual subtitutions and set them to STRING type:

 

SUBSTITUTE(`Date`," 12:00:00 AM","" )

 

SUBSTITUTE(`Time`,"30/12/1899 ","")

 

 

Put together the "extrated" Date and Times and set to DATETIME type

 

CONCATENATE(`Date_STRING`," ",`Time_STRING`)

 

Add a Time Zone Shift transform with your time zone.

 

 

 

The concatenate funcion does does seem to take formulas in it which is way I needed to add the extra preliminary steps.

You might need to change the format of the substituted strings depending on your computers default date/time formats.

You might need to start with string version of the Date and Time if things dont work, I did not need to do this in the end.

If no Time Zone shift is added the time will be parsed as (UTC+00:00)

 

Godiepi

Try this

 

 STR_TO_DATE(CONCAT(`DateColumn`, ' ', `TimeColumn`), '%m/%d/%Y %H:%i:%s')

 

let us know if it works

rado98

Hi

 

Thanks for the help, however the Workbench does not have STR_TO_DATE unfortunatelly. So I still need a way to do it in Workbench.

 

On a side note"

I had to modify the Beast Mode calcuation to get ti to work to:

STR_TO_DATE(CONCAT(`DateColumn`, ' ', TIME(`TimeColumn`)), '%Y/%m/%d %H:%i')

 

the TIME() funcion being the key difference.