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Gully
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3 years ago
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Converting different date formats to same format.

I am new to PowerBI and am having issues formatting a column with different date formats. I have the following 3 types of date in a text field. Every time I try to convert the column to a date forma...
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  • Shaurya's avatar
    Shaurya
    3 years ago

    Hi Gully,

     

    I created a table with datetime values in the 3 formats given by you.

     

     

    There shouldn't be any issue in converting all of these to datetime. Select Date/Time as the data type.

     

     

    Result:

     

     

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Gully
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3 years ago

Hi, Shaurya.

Thanks for your response. I followed your steps and it still didn't work. 

I then reloaded the data and followed your steps again and it worked.

I'm not sure what happened but all is good now.

Thanks,

Gully