Date Time to String Snowflake

Question

Need to convert a Snowflake TIMESTAMP_TZ(9) to String format,but throwing this error

"Date '27/02/2020' is not recognized"

Tried all of these:

TO_CHAR( date, 'DD-MM-YYYY') as date,   
TO_VARCHAR(date, 'DD/MM/YYYY') as date, 
TO_CHAR( date, 'DD.MM.YYYY') as date, 

Answer 1

I can reproduce the problem if I write a query like this:

select to_char(date, 'DD-MM-YYYY') 
from (
    select '27/02/2020'::date date
)

-- Date '27/02/2020' is not recognized

And I can fix that query with this:

select to_char(date, 'DD-MM-YYYY') 
from (
    select to_date('27/02/2020', 'DD/MM/YYYY') date
)

So if that's your problem, first you need to parse the dates with to_date() in that particular format.