Increment/Decrement Date Values

Use this task to increment or decrement a date or time column by any specified time unit.

Quickstart

Let us start with this data

Let us add 2-days to the date column. Complete the following steps:

Go to Transform > Date Functions.
Select the Increment/Decrement Date Values function.
Choose the date type column whose values you want to increment or decrement. It is Registered On column in this case.
Choose Add option.
You can enter an arbitrary combination of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. This will increment or decrement the entered number accordingly. To achieve the required results for above goal, enter 2 in the input box labeled Days.
Provide a new column of type date, or choose an existing column of type date in which you want to see the resultant values. In this example, we want to create a new column. Give it a name ('New Date') in the New column name
Click APPLY

After the above steps are completed, the updated data set will look as shown below:

This tasks takes the following inputs:

Date Column: The column which contains date values that are to be added to or subtracted from.
Add/Subtract: Configure addition/subtraction. The time delta value can be configured.
Apply result into: This option allows configuration of the destination of the results by this task. See result documentation.

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