pyflink.table.expressions.date_format

date_format(timestamp, format) → pyflink.table.expression.Expression

Formats a timestamp as a string using a specified format. The format must be compatible with MySQL’s date formatting syntax as used by the date_parse function.

For example date_format(col(“time”), “%Y, %d %M”) results in strings formatted as “2017, 05 May”.

Parameters

• timestamp – The timestamp to format as string.

• format – The format of the string.

Returns

The formatted timestamp as string.

New in version 1.12.0.