{
  "name": "to_datetime",
  "type": "function",
  "groups": ["Conversions", "Date and Time"],
  "description": "Converts a string into a datetime object. An optional format string can be provided to parse the string; see <a href='https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qdate.html#fromString-2'>QDate::fromString</a>, <a href='https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtime.html#fromString-1'>QTime::fromString</a> or the documentation of the format_date function for additional documentation on the format. By default the current QGIS user locale is used.",
  "arguments": [{
    "arg": "string",
    "description": "string representing a datetime value"
  }, {
    "arg": "format",
    "optional": true,
    "description": "format used to convert the string into a datetime"
  }, {
    "arg": "language",
    "optional": true,
    "description": "language (lowercase, two- or three-letter, ISO 639 language code) used to convert the string into a datetime. By default the current QGIS user locale is used."
  }],
  "examples": [{
    "expression": "to_datetime('2012-05-04 12:50:00')",
    "returns": "2012-05-04T12:50:00"
  }, {
    "expression": "to_datetime('June 29, 2019 @ 12:34','MMMM d, yyyy @ HH:mm')",
    "returns": "2019-06-29T12:34, if the current locale uses the name 'June' for the sixth month, otherwise an error occurs"
  }, {
    "expression": "to_datetime('29 juin, 2019 @ 12:34','d MMMM, yyyy @ HH:mm','fr')",
    "returns": "2019-06-29T12:34"
  }],
  "tags": ["provided", "additional", "user", "format_date", "parse", "qdate", "converts", "default", "datetime", "current", "format", "object", "fromstring", "optional", "documentation", "qtime", "see"]
}