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Error when converting text to date with Power BI
- 5 years ago
Hey Anonymous ,
for me it worked without any errors with your data.
Can you tell me the error?
Otherwise this happens for me once in a while when I import data in another locale format, like US format and I'm in Europe.
Try to import as with locale. Important, you have to do that when the column is still in format text.
Right click on the column --> Change Type --> Using Locale:
Then chose Date/Time and Locale English (US):
Afterwards he tries to make a datetime field from the US format.
Let me know if that worked.
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Anonymous , I do not see any date in the excel link.
This can be because your date is in dd/mm/yyyy format and you have a setting of windows mm/dd/yyyy
Other way is to convert date to other format - I dicussed in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vky4wPqm0O0
One way is this setting - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-apply-UK-date-format-dd-mm-yyyy-in-Date-slicer/td-p/599712