dtHour#

Purpose#

Extracts the hour component from a date/time variable as a number (1-12 or 1-24).

hour = dtHour(X[, column, twenty_four])#

Parameters:

X (TxK dataframe) – Data with metadata.
column (Scalar or string) – Optional, name or index of the date variable in X to get hours from. Default = first column.
twenty_four (Scalar) – Optional, indicator variable to specify twenty-four hour clock (0-23). Set to 1 to use 24-hr clock names. Default = 0.

Returns:

hour (Tx1 Vector) – The hour of the dates in the column specified by column.

// Create a date
date_df = asDate("2008-02-16 18:36:29", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");

// Get hours
dtHour(date_df);

This extracts the hour using the default 12-hr clock:

To use the 24-hr clock:

// Create a date
date_df = asDate("2008-02-16 18:36:29", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S");

// Get hour
dtHour(date_df, 1, 1);