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Anonymous
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Hello everyone,    Can anyone help me to convert this text column into a date column?  The text value looks like this 15-FEB-20 11.00.00.000000 PM.  
Date
Date and Time
date format
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    az38
    6 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

    if you need exactly DAX, not M formula use:

    a. for only date

    ColumnDate = DATEVALUE(FORMAT(LEFT([Columntext],9),"General Date"))

    b. for the datetime column

    ColumnDateTime = 
var _date = DATEVALUE(FORMAT(LEFT([Columntext],9),"General Date"))
var _time = TIMEVALUE(SUBSTITUTE(RIGHT([Columntext],LEN([Columntext])-10),".000000", ""))

RETURN
_date + _time
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az38
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6 years ago

Anonymous 

do you have empty cells with data? if so, how do you want to calculate it? what date it should return?

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

I have a column with date values like this one: "15-FEB-20 11.00.00.000000 PM." but they are formated as text and not date/time. I want to format the column from text to date/time.

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    az38
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    6 years ago

    Anonymous 

    yes, but error "Cannot convert value '' of type Text to type Date." says to me that it is possible that you have an empty cells in your Date column. How do you plan to perform empty cells?

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      Anonymous
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      6 years ago

      Aaaaah! Yes now it works! I didnt see the blank cell.. Thank you!