How to extract month from mm/dd/yyyy date field in ArcGIS Pro?

[ChrisSpadi1]

I have an attribute table with an ALARM_DATE field (mm/dd/yyyy) (data type: Date) and I want to extract only the month from it to a new field.

What is the simplest way to achieve this in field calculator or python 3?

[DanPatterson_Retired]

An example of a time field in a table called Timetest  (python parser)

int(!Timetest!.month)‍‍‍

Now via example

n = datetime.datetime.now()

n
datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 15, 20, 11, 32, 784152)

type(n)
<class 'datetime.datetime'>

dir(n)

[... snip, 'astimezone', 'combine', 'ctime', 'date', 'day', 'dst', 'fold',
 'fromordinal', 'fromtimestamp', 'hour', 'isocalendar', 'isoformat', 'isoweekday',
 'max', 'microsecond', 'min', 'minute', 'month', 'now', 'replace', 'resolution',
 'second', 'strftime', 'strptime', 'time', 'timestamp', 'timetuple', 'timetz',
 'today', 'toordinal', 'tzinfo', 'tzname', 'utcfromtimestamp', 'utcnow', 'utcoffset',
 'utctimetuple', 'weekday', 'year']

n.month  # ---- which is now an integer
12

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[shan_sarkar]

Have you tried using the Left () available in the Field Calculator under the String() tab?

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[ChrisSpadi1 · Accepted solution]

Thanks everyone. I ended up figuring it out with an Arcade solution using the date function Month.

date field is !ALARM_DATE!

new field I want only the month number is !Month_!

All you need to do is use the field calculator for new field ---->         !Month_! (integer)

Choose Arcade, enter Month($feature.ALARM_DATE), this returns values of the month 0 - 11 in Month_ field.

Use field calculator again on !Month_! with Python to add 1 to make it 1-12,   -----> !Month_! + 1