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MS Access – string to date

I have a column Date with this format: 2019-07-01T07:03:05.612289+02:00

And I need chage thit final form yyyy-mm-ss (in this example 2019-07-01)

Unfortunately this code does nothing:

SELECT Format ([Date], "yyyy / mm / dd")
FROM table_1;

Thaks for tips

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Answer

If your scenario is straigh forward, you can try with LEFT() function:

SELECT LEFT([Date], 10)
FROM table_1;

to convert the same text value into the yyyy-mm-dd date format, use the FORMAT() function:

SELECT FORMAT(LEFT([Date], 10), "yyyy-mm-dd")
FROM table_1;
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