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yellow_days
8 years agoHelper I
Format Date which is a string / Using a View
Hello, I have a Date column which is a String . I would like to generate a new column, that shows me the last n days. Therefore I need to convert my Column in a date Im using this code: Colu...
- 8 years ago
Use SUBSTITUTE to replace your "." with "/" before you try DATEVALUE.
yellow_days
8 years agoHelper I
Maybe I should mention that my text date looks like this: DD.MM.YYYY
Ashish_Mathur
8 years agoSuper User
Hi,
There could be one of 2 problems. Either . is not a recognised date seperator in your Windows Installation or if it is, then may be your systems date format in MM/DD/YYYY. It could also be both reasons.