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lardo5150
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6 years ago
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Convert Excel Serial Date to normal m/d/yyyy hh:mm

I have created a flow that grabs an excel, does some stuff, and then imports it to SharePoint. I then grab the SharePoint list.   The problem is the date is still in the Excel format: Examples: ...
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    V-lianl-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi lardo5150 ,

     

    You can try steps like below:

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("NcjBCcAwDAPAXfwuxqlkOZ4leP81AoXe884xoiRXbJAdRZvny4Rnc6Na+I/lfHMFl1Q2cwE=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [date = _t]),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"date", type number}}),
        #"Split Column by Character Transition" = Table.SplitColumn(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Changed Type", {{"date", type text}}, "en-US"), "date", Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition({"0".."9"}, (c) => not List.Contains({"0".."9"}, c)), {"date.1", "date.2"}),
        #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Character Transition",{{"date.1", Int64.Type}, {"date.2", type number}}),
        #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Custom", each Date.AddDays(#date(1900, 01, 01), [date.1])),
        #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom", "Custom.1", each Time.From([date.2])),
        #"Changed Type2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom1",{{"Custom", type date}, {"Custom.1", type time}}),
        #"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Changed Type2", {{"Custom", type text}, {"Custom.1", type text}}, "en-US"),{"Custom", "Custom.1"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter(" ", QuoteStyle.None),"Merged"),
        #"Changed Type3" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Merged Columns",{{"Merged", type datetime}})
    in
        #"Changed Type3"

    Here is the sample pbix.

     

    Best Regards,
    Liang
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