Date&Time to String

Converts date&time values to string representations using a user-defined format pattern. Locales can be specified to handle localized month or weekday names. Use this node to create customized date&time string formats.
Often used to export date&time data in a specific format for reports, files, or external systems.

Options

Date&time columns

The date&time columns to convert to string columns.

Locale

The locale to use for formatting the date&time. Names of months and days of the week will be translated according to the selected locale.

Output format

A format string (defined by DateTimeFormatter).
Examples:

• "yyyy.MM.dd HH:mm:ss.SSS" produces dates such as "2001.07.04 12:08:56.000"
• "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" produces dates such as "2001-07-04T12:08:56.235-0700"
• "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXXX'['VV']'" produces dates such as "2001-07-04T12:08:56.235+02:00[Europe/Berlin]"

Supported placeholders in the pattern are:

• G: era
• u: year
• y: year of era
• D: day of year
• M: month in year (context sensitive)
• L: month in year (standalone form)
• d: day of month
• Q/q: quarter of year
• Y: week based year (you probably want to use y instead)
• w: week of week based year
• W: week of month
• E: day of week
• e: localized day of week
  • e: 4
  • ee: 04
  • eee: Wed
  • eeee: Wednesday
  • eeeee: W
• c: day of week
• F: day-of-week in month
• a: am/pm of day
• h: clock hour of am/pm (1-12)
• K: hour of am/pm (0-11)
• k: clock hour of am/pm (1-24)
• H: hour of day (0-23)
• m: minute of hour
• s: second of minute
• S: fraction of second
• A: milli of day
• n: nano of second
• N: nano of day
• V: time zone ID
• z: time zone name
• O: localized zone offset
• x: zone offset (ISO8601)
  • X: +08 or +0830
  • XX: +0800 or +0830 (no colons)
  • XXX: +08:00 or +08:30 (with colons)
  • XXXX: +0800 or +083015 (i.e. including offset seconds, no colons)
  • XXXXX: +08:00 or +08:30:15 (i.e. including offset seconds, with colons)
• X: same as x, but outputs Z when offset is 0
• Z: zone offset (RFC822)
  • Z, ZZ, ZZZ: +0800 or +0830
  • ZZZZ: GMT+08:00 or GMT+08:30
  • ZZZZZ: +08:00 or +08:30:15
• p: pad next
• ' : escape for text
• '': single quote
• [: optional section start
• ]: optional section end

Output columns

Depending on this setting, the output columns will either replace the modified columns, or be appended to the table with a suffix.

• Replace: Replaces the selected columns by the new columns.
• Append with suffix: Appends the selected columns to the input table with a new name that is the previous name plus the provided suffix.

Output column suffix

The suffix to append to the column names of the new columns.

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