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Date Field Issue

Hi,  One of my data contains a text field as below. Request help to convert it to date column by removing letters in Query editor   Date 2021-06-15T00:06:00Z Requirement  DATE 6/15/202...
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    5 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

    If you change value like 2021-06-15T00:06:00Z to Date/time format directly, it may show wrong datetime.

    In my test, it will show 2021/06/15 08:06:00 AM in my test, this will be impacted by timezone.

    If all date values are in type of xxxx/xx/xx T...Z. You can replace T by space and replace Z by null. Then change your data type as datetime.

    Result is as below.

    let
        Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjIwMtQ1MNM1NA0xMLAyMLMyMIhSio0FAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Date = _t]),
        #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(Source,"T"," ",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Date"}),
        #"Replaced Value1" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value","Z","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Date"}),
        #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Replaced Value1",{{"Date", type datetime}})
    in
        #"Changed Type"

    Best Regards,
    Rico Zhou

     

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