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Varan_15
Helper III
3 years ago

Date format issue

Hi All,

facing date format issue like one file (MM/DD/YY) another one file contains (DD/MM/YY) how to change as a same format in powerbi.

examble :

Need Help

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  • HotChilli's avatar
    HotChilli
    Community Champion
    3 years ago

    In Power Query, right-click the column and 'Change Type' ->using Locale, and you pick the date format you want to transfer from (for example, UK or US).

    From the picture I think you have appended the 2 files and the column is text so you need to do this before appending the 2 files.

  • PhilipTreacy's avatar
    PhilipTreacy
    Super User
    3 years ago

    Hi Varan_15 

     

    Do you know which files contain dates in which format?  If you don't then this will be hard/impossible as is.  Ideally you should be getting the dates in the same format.  Failing that you need to deal with them separately, e.g. US format dates converted separately to UK dates.

     

    Even if you tried something like

     

    try Date.From([Dates] , "en-UK") otherwise Date.From([Dates] , "en-US")

     

     

    it's not perfect because it can't tell if 07/04/2022 is April 7th or July 4th.

     

    Regards

     

    Phil