Formatting Date in Generate Statement

Question

In Pig, I have a statement which basically appends the date to my generated values.

Data = FOREACH Input GENERATE (CurrentTime()),FLATTEN(group), COUNT(guid)         


        

Answer 1

If you are using Pig 0.12 or later, you can use ToString(CurrentTime(),'yyyy-MM-dd')

You can use any datetime type instead of CurrentTime()

Refer to http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.12.0/func.html#to-string for date time formats.