Converting different date formats to same format.

[Gully]

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 format at least one comes back with 'Error'. 

CreationDate
8/26/2022 7:16:32 AM      - missing leading zero for month and includes seconds
09/02/2022 17:50             - uses 24 hour clock. 
09/01/2022 7:32 PM         - uses 12 hour clock. 

How to I make the date format consistant ?

Many thanks,

Gully.

[CaioBauab]

Hello!

I have a different mix of locales at same column as en-US and es-MX:

1/22/2023 8:13:01 AM

25/05/2020 08:00:19 p. m.

When I try to convert using locale in two steps, I got an error for the second one.

Any hint will be appreciate!

[Gully]

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

[Shaurya · Accepted solution]

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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