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GuerauFF
Helper II
6 years ago
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Date format

Hi there!   I am having some issues with date formatting... it's a nightmare!   So, what I have is a column where I have both dates as "dd/mm/YYYY hh:mm:ss" and others as "dd/mm/YYYY hh:mm:ss AM/...
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  • MFelix's avatar
    MFelix
    6 years ago

    Hi  GuerauFF ,

     

    Try the following code:

    if Text.End([DAte], 2) = "AM" or Text.End([DAte], 2) = "PM"
  then Text.PadStart(Text.AfterDelimiter(Text.BeforeDelimiter([DAte], "/", 1), "/", 0), 2, "0")
     & "/"
     & Text.PadStart(Text.BeforeDelimiter([DAte], "/", 0), 2, "0")
     & "/"
     & Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], "/", 1)
  else Text.PadStart(Text.AfterDelimiter(Text.BeforeDelimiter([DAte], "/", 1), "/", 0), 2, "0")
     & "/"
     & Text.PadStart(Text.BeforeDelimiter([DAte], "/", 0), 2, "0")
     & "/"
     & Text.AfterDelimiter(Text.BeforeDelimiter([DAte], " ", 0), "/", 1)
     & " "
     & (if Number.FromText(Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], " ", 0), ":", 0)) < 12
      then Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], " ", 0), ":", 0)
      else Number.ToText(
        Number.FromText(Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], " ", 0), ":", 0)) - 12
      ))
     & ":"
     & Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], ":", 0)
     & (if Number.FromText(Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], " ", 0), ":", 0)) < 12
      then " AM"
      else " PM")
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MFelix
Super User
6 years ago

Hi  GuerauFF ,

 

Try the following code:

if Text.End([DAte], 2) = "AM" or Text.End([DAte], 2) = "PM"
  then Text.PadStart(Text.AfterDelimiter(Text.BeforeDelimiter([DAte], "/", 1), "/", 0), 2, "0")
     & "/"
     & Text.PadStart(Text.BeforeDelimiter([DAte], "/", 0), 2, "0")
     & "/"
     & Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], "/", 1)
  else Text.PadStart(Text.AfterDelimiter(Text.BeforeDelimiter([DAte], "/", 1), "/", 0), 2, "0")
     & "/"
     & Text.PadStart(Text.BeforeDelimiter([DAte], "/", 0), 2, "0")
     & "/"
     & Text.AfterDelimiter(Text.BeforeDelimiter([DAte], " ", 0), "/", 1)
     & " "
     & (if Number.FromText(Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], " ", 0), ":", 0)) < 12
      then Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], " ", 0), ":", 0)
      else Number.ToText(
        Number.FromText(Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], " ", 0), ":", 0)) - 12
      ))
     & ":"
     & Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], ":", 0)
     & (if Number.FromText(Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.AfterDelimiter([DAte], " ", 0), ":", 0)) < 12
      then " AM"
      else " PM")
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GuerauFF
Helper II
6 years ago

Yes!

 

It worked perfectly! Thank you very much MFelix ! Awesome!

 

Will make sure to give you the biggest kudos! 🙂