Date and Time Patterns - Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics SQL Reference (original) (raw)

Date and time formats are specified by date and time pattern strings. In these pattern strings, unquoted letters from A to Z and from a to z represent components of a data or time value. If a letter or text string is enclosed within a pair of single quotes, that letter or text is not interpreted but rather used as is, as are all other characters in the pattern string. During printing, that letter or text is copied as is to the output string; during parsing, they are matched against the input string. "''" represents a single quote.

The following pattern letters are defined for the indicated Date or Time Component. All other characters from 'A' to 'Z' and from 'a' to 'z' are reserved. For an alphabetic ordering of the pattern letters, seeDate and Time Pattern Letters in Alphabetic Order.

Pattern letters are usually repeated, as their number determines the exact presentation:

Text

For formatting, if the number of pattern letters is 4 or more, the full form is used; otherwise a short or abbreviated form is used if available. For parsing, both forms are accepted, independent of the number of pattern letters.

Number

For formatting, the number of pattern letters is the minimum number of digits, and shorter numbers are zero-padded to this amount. For parsing, the number of pattern letters is ignored unless it's needed to separate two adjacent fields.

Year

Time zones are interpreted as text if they have names. For time zones representing a GMT offset value, the following syntax is used:

GMTOffsetTimeZone:
GMT Sign Hours : Minutes
Sign: one of
+ -
Hours:
Digit
Digit Digit
Minutes:
Digit Digit
Digit: one of
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Hours must be between 0 and 23, and Minutes must be between 00 and 59. The format is locale independent and digits must be taken from the Basic Latin block of the Unicode standard.

For parsing, RFC 822 time zones are also accepted.

RFC 822 time zone

For formatting, the RFC 822 4-digit time zone format is used:

RFC822TimeZone:
Sign TwoDigitHours Minutes
TwoDigitHours:
Digit Digit

TwoDigitHours must be between 00 and 23. Other definitions are as for general time zones.

For parsing, general time zones are also accepted.

SimpleDateFormat also supports ''localized date and time pattern'' strings. In these strings, the pattern letters described above may be replaced with other, locale dependent, pattern letters. SimpleDateFormat does not deal with the localization of text other than the pattern letters; that's up to the client of the class.

Examples

The following examples show how date and time patterns are interpreted in the U.S. locale. The given date and time are 2001-07-04 12:08:56 local time in the U.S. Pacific time zone.

Date and Time Pattern Letters in Alphabetic Order

The same pattern letters shown at first, above, in Date or Time Component order are shown below in alphabetic order for easy reference.