20,000 Amazon Redshift Timestamp Format Examples

You will love this blog because date, timestamp functions and formatting differ dramatically between databases, and Amazon Redshift handles them uniquely, but I have covered everything you need to know about formatting with brilliant examples and clear and concise explanations.

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Below are some great examples for formatting an Amazon Redshift timestamp to get you a great start to understanding how Redshift formats.

YYYY: Four-digit year.
YY: Two-digit year.
MM: Month (01-12).
DD: Day of the month (01-31) with leading zero.
HH: Hour (00-23).
MI: Minute (00-59).
SS: Second (00-59).
US: Microseconds.
MS: Milliseconds.
Month: Name of month capitalized, padded with blanks to length of 9.
Mon: Abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan, Feb).
“Quarter”: Literal text Quarter.
Q: Quarter of the year (1-4), derived from the month.
Day: Name of day capitalized (Saturday), padded with blanks to length of 9 characters.
Dy: Abbreviated day of the week name (e.g., Sun, Mon).
“DOY”: Literal text ‘DOY’.
DDD: Day of the year (001-366).

The Redshift query example below uses the TO_CHAR function in the WHERE and AND clause to only return rows where the customer_timestamp has a month of December, a day of Saturday, a minute of 54 and a second of 34. Yes, you can format and then use the formatted timestamp to filter rows.

In the table below you can scroll to see 20,000 different Amazon Redshift timestamp format examples.