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my date in Excel is dd/mm/yyyy
PBI reads in then as mm/dd/yyy so my data only pulls through January for example.
How do I get PBI to read it so that the date gets read as per Excel .. or do I need to ammend Excel to mm/dd/yyyy
any advice would be appreciated.
thanks
Marc
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Hi @MarcUrdang ,
We can add cultures parameter for example "gsw-FR" or "ar-BH" in the end of Table.TransformColumnTypes function to meet your requirement.
Best regards,
Hi @MarcUrdang ,
How about the result after you follow the suggestions mentioned in my original post?Could you please provide more details about it If it doesn't meet your requirement?
Best regards,
Hi @MarcUrdang ,
We can add cultures parameter for example "gsw-FR" or "ar-BH" in the end of Table.TransformColumnTypes function to meet your requirement.
Best regards,
If the formatting solutions do not work out. Then mark that column as text and create a new date column.
Date formatted = mid(DD__MM__YY[Date],4,2) &"/"& left(DD__MM__YY[Date],2) & "/" & right(DD__MM__YY[Date],4)
Mark this new column as the date. Also, create one more column based on DD/MM/YYYY. Mark that also has text. use that column to display date in that format. Make the mm/dd/yyyy date column as sort column of the new column
Approach 1) Select your column --> go to modelling tab --> Data Type set to Date --> Format set to dd/mm/yyyy.
Approach 2) Create one calculated column like below:
Date = FORMAT('Table1'[DateColumn],"DD/MM/YYYY")
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