datetime-to-timestamp.md

Datetime To Timestamp

The DATETIME-TO-TIMESTAMP directive converts a datetime value to timestamp with the given zone

Syntax

datetime-to-timestamp <colname> 'timezone'

Usage Notes

The DATETIME-TO-TIMESTAMP directive converts datetime values to timestamp values using the given time zone (UTC by default). Zone can be region based string like America/Los_Angeles, Europe/Paris , simple offsets like +08:00 , or prefix and offset like UTC+01:00, GMT+08:00, UT+04:00 etc

If the column is null applying this directive is a no-op.

Examples

datetime-to-timestamp :col1 'UTC-08:00'

datetime-to-timestamp :col2 'America/Los_Angeles'