Dates formatted properly in Power Query Editor, but not in Report Fields

[Radiolta]

I am bringing in data from an Excel spreadsheet that includes dates.  The Power Query Editor recognizes the date column - Visit Date - as a date in applied steps. 

Once the query is applied, the Visit Date field in the Fields selection area does not show a Date icon.

When trying to write a measure using [Visit Date].[date], it does not recognize the field as a date and an error is received. 

Aside from making another custom column from the data, is there any way to make this field be recognized as a date in the Report area?   Thanks!

[V-lianl-msft]

This might be caused by the relationship.

When you have a date, Power BI automatically generate different views for different time hierarchies. But when you have a connection between tables (using date format) what happens is that the main date (table in which you have the one in one-to-many relationship) is the one that get the date hierarchy icon.

[HotChilli]

It will be a date.  Check the datatype of the column in powerbi front end.

Either you have switched off auto date/time settings OR there is a relationship with a date in a different table (and THAT date has the hierarchy).

All standard behaviour.

We always advise using a date dimension.