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TheAndy
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5 years ago
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Accepted datetime format?

So background: I have a dataset that updates daily via powershell. Currently the "Date" column in the table is actually stored as a string. This works but it's causing sorting issues (like 01/02/2020...
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    5 years ago

    NVM, worked it out. I forgot that adding -format to Get-Date in PS turns the output into a string rather than a datetime, so of course the data types wouldn't match.


    [datetime]$date = Get-Date -format "whatever format you like" 

     

    worked first time.