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Sebastian
Advocate III
Advocate III

Format date time field. Wrong name of month

Hallo Community,

 

I try to get the name of the month from a date-time field but it always shows the wrong Month.

 

Example:

 

customerdate                                shown month

15.07.2015 13:34:17                 Jan

 

I use the following function:

 

Name of Month= FORMAT(MONTH(Customer[Customerdate]);"MMM")

 

 

What's wrong? Any idea?

 

Thanks

Sebastian

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Tsanka
Kudo Collector
Kudo Collector

I think you have to convert your date/time to date in order to correctly use the format function.

 

Edit: Missed the usage of month function - no need of it.

Month_Name = FORMAT([Date],"MMM")

 

 

 

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Tsanka
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Kudo Collector

I think you have to convert your date/time to date in order to correctly use the format function.

 

Edit: Missed the usage of month function - no need of it.

Month_Name = FORMAT([Date],"MMM")

 

 

 

Thank's a lot.

That was the mistake, didn't know why I'm using the MONTH function.

 

Sebastian
Advocate III
Advocate III

It also happens if i try the function on a normal date field. Is there a bug in the latest update?

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