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Anonymous
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6 years ago
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Dateformat

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 

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!