How to extract Month and Year from column in PowerBI powerquery

[Anonymous]

I have a column that looks like (A) and I want it to look like (B). How can I extract only the month and the year of each item in column A so that it can be a custom column like B?

A:

01/01/2020 12:00:00 AM

01/02/2020 12:00:00 AM

01/03/2020 12:00:00 AM

01/04/2020 12:00:00 AM

B:

01/2020

01/2020

01/2020

01/2020

[v-eachen-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

You could try the following codes, it will return text type values.

= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Custom", each 
   (if 
       Date.Month([Column1])<10
    then 
       "0" & Number.ToText(Date.Month([Column1]))
    else 
       Number.ToText(Date.Month([Column1])))
   &"/"&
   Number.ToText(Date.Year([Column1])))

[AlB]

Hi @Anonymous 

In Power Query you can either:

a) Create a custom column  with the code

      = [Column A]

   and then convert the type to Date (instead of the DateTime it now is

b) Create a custom column  with the code

      = Date.StartOfDay( [Column A] )

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