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Frixel
Post Prodigy
5 years ago
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convert Timestamp

Hi,   I have in my file a colomn with TimeStamps like this.     as you see the date is a mix of 8 digits, 9 digits or 10 digits.   I want try to make colomn`s Date & Time Colomnn  How c...
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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    5 years ago

    Frixel Try the following:

     

    Date Column = 
    VAR __Date = SUBSTITUTE(LEFT([Column1],SEARCH(" ",[Column1],,0)),"(","")
    VAR __FirstHyphen = SEARCH("-",__Date,,0)
    VAR __SecondHyphen = SEARCH("-",__Date,__FirstHyphen+1,0)
    VAR __Day = LEFT(__Date,SEARCH("-",__Date,,0)-1)
    VAR __Month = MID([Column1],__FirstHyphen+2,__SecondHyphen - __FirstHyphen - 1)
    VAR __Year = RIGHT(__Date,LEN(__Date) - __SecondHyphen)
    VAR __NewDate = __Month & "-" & __Day & "-" & __Year
RETURN
    __NewDate

     

     PBIX is attached below sig. Table (17a)

CNENFRNL's avatar
CNENFRNL
Community Champion
5 years ago

Frixel IMHO, it's a lightweight to cope with in Power Query as there's a specific date type called datetime to hold such data. Pls try M code below,

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W0jDTNbLUNTIwMlAwsLAyMLIyMdFUitUBShjqmkPFza2MgVKWQPFYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    Trans = Table.TransformColumns(Source, {{"Column1", each Text.Remove(_, {"(", ")"})}}),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Trans,{{"Column1", type datetime}}),
    Split = Table.TransformColumns(#"Changed Type", {"Column1", each [Date = DateTime.Date(_), Time = DateTime.Time(_)]}),
    #"Expanded Column1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(Split, "Column1", {"Date", "Time"}, {"Date", "Time"})
in
    #"Expanded Column1"