Concatenate Date And Time Fields (Tracking Analyst)

Summary

Concatenates two separate date and time fields in a feature class or layer into a single field containing both the date and time.

Tracking Analyst is designed to work with temporal data containing date and time information in a single field. If your data contains the date and time in two separate fields, this tool can be used to combine the information together into a new field that Tracking Analyst will understand.

Usage

Syntax

ConcatenateDateAndTimeFields_TA (Feature_Class, DateField, TimeField, OutputField)
ParameterExplanationData Type
Feature_Class

The input feature class or layer.

Feature Layer
DateField

The text field in the input feature layer that contains date values.

Field
TimeField

The text field in the input feature layer that contains time values.

Field
OutputField

The name of the new concatenated date/time field to be created and added to the input feature layer.

String

Code Sample

ConcatenateDateAndTimeFields example (Python window)

This sample shows how to run the tool to concatenate the "MY_DATE" and "MY_TIME" fields, creating a new field named "NEW_DATE_TIME".

import arcpy
arcpy.CheckOutExtension("tracking")
inputGDB = "C:/arcgis/ArcTutor/Tracking Analyst/My_Geodatabase.gdb/my_feature_class"
arcpy.ConcatenateDateAndTimeFields_ta(inputGDB, "MY_DATE", "MY_TIME", "NEW_DATE_TIME")

Environments

Related Topics

Licensing Information

ArcView: Requires Tracking Analyst
ArcEditor: Requires Tracking Analyst
ArcInfo: Requires Tracking Analyst

Published 6/8/2010