how to create date/time/timezone field from combining date and text fields

[Anonymous]

I have the following fields:

[Date]        data type: date             setting: M/D/YYYY                               sample value: 9/1/2020

[Time]        data type: text              format: H:MM:SS AM/PM TZ              sample value: 8:05:30 AM ET

I need to create a derived field of type date/time/timezone in Power Query using these two fields.  How can I create this field?  For example, for the sample values above, I expect an output like:

9/1/2020 8:05:30 AM -05:00

[v-kelly-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Does your data exist in tables?If possible,could you pls provide a table format,not just show the field.It would be more convenient to do the data transformation.

Best Regards,
Kelly

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[Anonymous]

@v-kelly-msft 

Below is the file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SCl06kG6jEtQ6X4XmSOwKTaRBOku5DPM/view?usp=sharing

[v-kelly-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ，

Go to query editor,select column "Time">"Transform">"Split column":

And you will see:

Then create a custom column as below:

Finally you will see:

For the M codes,see below:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WstQ31DcyMDJQ0lGysDIwtTI2UHD0VXANUYqNBQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Date = _t, Time = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Date", type date}, {"Time", type text}}),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Changed Type", "Time", Splitter.SplitTextByEachDelimiter({" "}, QuoteStyle.Csv, true), {"Time.1", "Time.2"}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Time.1", type time}, {"Time.2", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom2" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Custom.1", each DateTime.AddZone([Date]&[Time.1],-5))
in
    #"Added Custom2"

Attachment is the related .pbix file.

Best Regards,
Kelly

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