Migrate Date Field To High Precision (Data Management Tools)

Summary

Migrates date fields in a table to high precision.

This tool modifies the input data. See Tools that modify or update the input data for more information and strategies to avoid undesired data changes.

High precision date fields support millisecond time.

Caution:

Once a date field is migrated to high precision, it cannot be reverted to a standard precision date field.
The default format in which information is presented in high precision date fields is mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss.fff with a specification of AM or PM.

Label	Explanation	Data type
Input Table	The geodatabase table or feature class containing the date fields that will be migrated to high precision.	Table View
Date Fields	The date fields that will be migrated to high precision.	Field

Label	Explanation	Data type
Updated Table	The updated dataset with the specified date fields migrated to high precision.	Layer; Table View; Dataset

arcpy.management.MigrateDateFieldToHighPrecision(in_table, date_fields)

Name	Explanation	Data type
in_table	The geodatabase table or feature class containing the date fields that will be migrated to high precision.	Table View
date_fields [date_fields,...]	The date fields that will be migrated to high precision.	Field

Name	Explanation	Data type
updated_table	The updated dataset with the specified date fields migrated to high precision.	Layer; Table View; Dataset

MigrateDateFieldToHighPrecision example 1 (Python window)

The following Python script demonstrates how to use the MigrateDateFieldToHighPrecision function for a single table and date input.

import arcpy
arcpy.management.MigrateDateFieldToHighPrecision("C:/MyProject/MyGDB.gdb/Table1", "date_field1")

MigrateDateFieldToHighPrecision example 2 (Python window)

The following Python script demonstrates how to use the MigrateDateFieldToHighPrecision function using a list of date fields.

import arcpy
arcpy.management.MigrateDateFieldToHighPrecision("C:/MyProject/MyGDB.gdb/Table1", ["date_field1", "date_field2"])

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments.