Get part of date

The Get part of date step extracts the specified time unit (day of week, day of month, month, year, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds) from a date column.

Parameters
  • Input column: required, select a date column from the column list.

  • Part: required, the time unit to be extracted from input date. Following options are available:

    • day of week

    • day of month

    • month

    • year

    • hours

    • minutes

    • seconds

    • milliseconds

  • Target column: required, configure the column which will receive the output. Output will always be an integer.

    • Write result to the current column: outputs data into the Input column.

    • Create new column with name: create a new column with specified name. Name of the new column can contain spaces or special characters - technical column name will be created automatically. The new column will be placed next to the Input column.

Examples

Sample date: 2023-05-09 03:11:00

Date unit Result

Day of week

2

Day of month

9

Month

5

Minute

11

Returned values

The values returned by the step depend on the selected unit:

Unit Minimum value Maximum value Note

day of week

1

7 (Sunday)

Value of 1 always means Monday and 7 is Sunday regardless of the start day of the week.

day of month

1

31

month

1

12

year

292278994 (292 million)

-292278994 (-292 million)

Dates can store exact date and time millions of years in the past or in the future.

hours

0

23

24-hour format is used regardless of the display format of the input date column (i.e. 4pm will return 16).

minutes

0

59

seconds

0

59

milliseconds

0

999

See also