Presto SQL - Converting a date string to date format

Question

I\'m on presto and have a date formatted as varchar that looks like -

7/14/2015 8:22:39 AM

I\'ve looked the presto docs and tried various

Answer 1

SQL 2003 standard defines the format as follows:

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There are some definitions in between that just link back to these, but in short YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS with optional .mmm milliseconds is required to work on all SQL databases.