toDate

toDate converts a string to a date. The first argument is the date layout and the second the date string. If the string can't be convert it returns the zero value. mustToDate will return an error in case the string cannot be converted.

This is useful when you want to convert a string date to another format (using pipe). The example below converts "2017-12-31" to "31/12/2017".

toDate "2006-01-02" "2017-12-31" | date "02/01/2006"