datetime_add()
Applies to: ✅ Microsoft Fabric ✅ Azure Data Explorer ✅ Azure Monitor ✅ Microsoft Sentinel
Calculates a new datetime from a specified period multiplied by a specified amount, added to, or subtracted from a specified datetime.
Syntax
datetime_add(
period,
amount,
datetime)
Learn more about syntax conventions.
Parameters
Name | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
period | string |
✔️ | The length of time by which to increment. |
amount | int |
✔️ | The number of periods to add to or subtract from datetime. |
datetime | datetime |
✔️ | The date to increment by the result of the period x amount calculation. |
Possible values of period:
- Year
- Quarter
- Month
- Week
- Day
- Hour
- Minute
- Second
- Millisecond
- Microsecond
- Nanosecond
Returns
A datetime after a certain time/date interval has been added.
Examples
Period
print year = datetime_add('year',1,make_datetime(2017,1,1)),
quarter = datetime_add('quarter',1,make_datetime(2017,1,1)),
month = datetime_add('month',1,make_datetime(2017,1,1)),
week = datetime_add('week',1,make_datetime(2017,1,1)),
day = datetime_add('day',1,make_datetime(2017,1,1)),
hour = datetime_add('hour',1,make_datetime(2017,1,1)),
minute = datetime_add('minute',1,make_datetime(2017,1,1)),
second = datetime_add('second',1,make_datetime(2017,1,1))
Output
year | quarter | month | week | day | hour | minute | second |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018-01-01 00:00:00.0000000 | 2017-04-01 00:00:00.0000000 | 2017-02-01 00:00:00.0000000 | 2017-01-08 00:00:00.0000000 | 2017-01-02 00:00:00.0000000 | 2017-01-01 01:00:00.0000000 | 2017-01-01 00:01:00.0000000 | 2017-01-01 00:00:01.0000000 |
Amount
print year = datetime_add('year',-5,make_datetime(2017,1,1)),
quarter = datetime_add('quarter',12,make_datetime(2017,1,1)),
month = datetime_add('month',-15,make_datetime(2017,1,1)),
week = datetime_add('week',100,make_datetime(2017,1,1))
Output
year | quarter | month | week |
---|---|---|---|
2012-01-01T00:00:00Z | 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z | 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z | 2018-12-02T00:00:00Z |