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ayeoh
Employee
Employee

Error Formatting Month-Year Column from Text to Date

Hi, 

I created this column: 

SubscriptionStartMonth = MONTH('Table'[SubscriptionStartDate]) & YEAR('Table'[SubscriptionStartDate]) because I want to filter to specific month on the matrix...but the column was created as Text, so I changed to the March 2001 format, but then I got this error: 

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SubscriptionStartDate comes as a Date format already.

I searched for and found this thread - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/changing-date-format-from-text-to-date/m-p/2637027#M926429 ...
hanks.

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vicky_
Super User
Super User

Possible a locale issue? (as in one of your dates might be in mm/dd/yyyy rather than dd/mm/yyyy). Or that the date format isn't the one that PowerBI expects

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