HOUR (Date) HOUR (Date) Date Temporal Temporal The date to be converted. Returns Number Number The hour of the date (0 through 23). Details Returns the hour of a given date, as a number from 0 through 23. See also MINUTE and SECOND for extracting other time components, and TIME for constructing a time from its components. Example HOUR ( TIME (1, 25, 2)) HOUR ( TIME (1; 25; 2)) Returns 1, the hour of the time 1:25:02 (1:25 AM).