# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ author SparkByExamples.com """ from pyspark.sql import SparkSession # Create SparkSession spark = SparkSession.builder \ .appName('SparkByExamples.com') \ .getOrCreate() from pyspark.sql.functions import * df=spark.createDataFrame( data = [ ("1","2019-06-24 12:01:19.000")], schema=["id","input_timestamp"]) df.printSchema() #Timestamp String to DateType df.withColumn("timestamp",to_timestamp("input_timestamp")) \ .show(truncate=False) # Using Cast to convert TimestampType to DateType df.withColumn('timestamp', \ to_timestamp('input_timestamp').cast('string')) \ .show(truncate=False) df.select(to_timestamp(lit('06-24-2019 12:01:19.000'),'MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSSS')) \ .show(truncate=False) #SQL string to TimestampType spark.sql("select to_timestamp('2019-06-24 12:01:19.000') as timestamp") #SQL CAST timestamp string to TimestampType spark.sql("select timestamp('2019-06-24 12:01:19.000') as timestamp") #SQL Custom string to TimestampType spark.sql("select to_timestamp('06-24-2019 12:01:19.000','MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss.SSSS') as timestamp")