How to convert custom datetime format to timestamp?

Question

Any Idea why I am getting the result below?

scala> val b = to_timestamp($\"DATETIME\", \"ddMMMYYYY:HH:mm:ss\")
b: org.apache.spark.sql.Column = to_timesta         


        

Answer 1

try below code

I have created a sample dataframe "df" for the table

+---+-------------------+
| id|               date|
+---+-------------------+
|  1| 01JAN2017:01:02:03|
|  2| 15MAR2017:01:02:03|
|  3|02APR2015:23:24:25 |
+---+-------------------+
val t_s= unix_timestamp($"date","ddMMMyyyy:HH:mm:ss").cast("timestamp")

df.withColumn("ts",t_s).show()

+---+-------------------+--------------------+
| id|               date|                  ts|
+---+-------------------+--------------------+
|  1| 01JAN2017:01:02:03|2017-01-01 01:02:...|
|  2| 15MAR2017:01:02:03|2017-03-15 01:02:...|
|  3|02APR2015:23:24:25 |2015-04-02 23:24:...|
+---+-------------------+--------------------+

Thanks

Answer 2

Use y (year) not Y (week year):

spark.sql("SELECT to_timestamp('04JUN2018:10:11:12', 'ddMMMyyyy:HH:mm:ss')").show
// +--------------------------------------------------------+
// |to_timestamp('04JUN2018:10:11:12', 'ddMMMyyyy:HH:mm:ss')|
// +--------------------------------------------------------+
// |                                     2018-06-04 10:11:12|
// +--------------------------------------------------------+

Another example:

scala> sql("select to_timestamp('12/08/2020 1:24:21 AM', 'MM/dd/yyyy H:mm:ss a')").show
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|to_timestamp('12/08/2020 1:24:21 AM', 'MM/dd/yyyy H:mm:ss a')|
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                          2020-12-08 01:24:21|
+-------------------------------------------------------------+

Answer 3

Try this UDF:

val changeDtFmt = udf{(cFormat: String,
                         rFormat: String,
                         date: String) => {
  val formatterOld = new SimpleDateFormat(cFormat)
  val formatterNew = new SimpleDateFormat(rFormat)
  formatterNew.format(formatterOld.parse(date))
}}

sourceRawData.
  withColumn("ts", 
    changeDtFmt(lit("ddMMMyyyy:HH:mm:ss"), lit("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"), $"DATETIME")).
  show(6,false)