On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Viral Bajaria <viral.baja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have a question regarding the existing date functions in Hive > (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/LanguageManual/UDF#Date_Functions) > The unix_timestamp() functions return a bigint while the from_unixtime() > accepts an int. I don't think that's the right thing to do ? the > from_unixtime should accept a bigint so that you can use both functions as a > nested operation. > i.e. from_unixtime(unix_timestamp(<datestring>,<pattern>)) > Thanks, > Viral
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