parseDate not working with PM marker

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Jamie Gangestad

• August 10, 2021 20:29

When I parse dates that have AM and PM markers in the time, the AM markers work fine but the PM markers trigger the error "Unparseable date". Here are some examples that work and don't work:

| parseDate("08/03/2021 02:00:00 AM","MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss a", "America/New_York" ) as ThisDateParseWorks
| parseDate("08/03/2021 14:00:00","MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss", "America/New_York" ) as ThisDateParseWorks2
| parseDate("08/03/2021 02:00:00 PM","MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss a", "America/New_York" ) as ThisDateParseDoesNotWork

The AM/PM do not appear to be case sensitive. Can you give me any tips on how to parse the "PM" marker successfully?

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  Kevin Keech

  • August 10, 2021 22:18

  Hi Jamie Gangestad,
  
  Within your format you'll want to change the hour designation from "HH" to "hh." Lowercase "hh" defines the hours are in am/pm (1-12) so should address the error you're seeing.

  | parseDate("08/03/2021 02:00:00 PM","MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a", "America/New_York" ) as ThisDateParseShouldWork 

  Uppercase "HH" designates that the parsed hour is in 24 hour format. (0-23) Since 02 in this format is always AM trying to define this as PM could be resulting in the error. You should also see a similar issue if in your first expression you change the time from 02 to 13.  
   

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  Jamie Gangestad

  • August 11, 2021 13:23

  Yes, the lower case "hh" did fix the problem. Thank you.

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