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Luddekudde
Advocate I
Advocate I

Day function reading month

Hi, I'm using a DAY function to read the day out of a column with the date in dd/mm/yyyy format.

However when the day is 12 or below the function reads the month instead, as you can see in the picture.

The column [days in between] reads the [ZAPPDATE] with a DAY function, but when the day value equals 12 or lower it instead reads the month value.

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I have my dateformat set to dd/mm/yyyy on my computer so that shouldn't be the problem. Any ideas?

 

Thanks

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Phil_Seamark
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

That does seem odd.  What data time are you using for the [ZAPPDATE] column?

 

And if you are using Date/Time what does your [ZAPPDATE] column show if you set the Format to something a little more verbose?

 

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Thanks! The trick was to change the format outside of the query-editor.

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Phil_Seamark
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

That does seem odd.  What data time are you using for the [ZAPPDATE] column?

 

And if you are using Date/Time what does your [ZAPPDATE] column show if you set the Format to something a little more verbose?

 

image.png


To learn more about DAX visit : aka.ms/practicalDAX

Proud to be a Datanaut!

Thanks! The trick was to change the format outside of the query-editor.

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