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# Hour

Returns the hour component of the given Date as a number.

**Category:** `date`

**Syntax:**

```
Hour([date_column], |timezone|)
```

**Returns:** `IntColumn`

**Context Filtering:** ✓ Yes

## Parameters

| Name          | Type               | Required | Description                                                                                                                                  |
| ------------- | ------------------ | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `date_column` | `column\|datetime` | ✓ Yes    | The Date from which to extract the hour component.                                                                                           |
| `timezone`    | `text`             | ✗ No     | Name of IANA time zone to get the date part at (e.g., "America/Los\_Angeles"). When calculating a time zone, input dates are treated as UTC. |

**Allowed Column Types:** DATETIME

## Validation

* Minimum parameters: 1
* Maximum parameters: 2

## Examples

```
Hour(Date("2007-08-14 07:11:00"))
```

Returns hour from the given date value.
**Result:** `7`

```
Hour([Date])
```

Returns the hour component of each date value in the \[Date] column as a number.