My Google Sheets is currently set to UK London GMT
I have some data that is needed in UK format and other data that is needed in US format within the same sheet.
I'm using date time as dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss and have been trying to convert this to US yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss
When formatting the UK date time to as text and using this formula
=ARRAYFORMULA(REGEXREPLACE(A2:A, "(\d{4})-(\d+)-(\d+)", "$3/$2/$1"))
It should be converting for me however is stays the same.
I have also tried simply copying and pasting in a new column with the intention of changing format from within formatting settings but when pasting it seems to randomly select different formats in some rows using / instead of - and in other rows returning a number instead of date time.
How can I get this to work correctly?
try:
=TEXT(A2, "e-m-d h:mm:ss")
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My data is in UK date format, powerquery editor displays this as US date format, and when I load the table back in to excel, it displays it as UK date format. This is an issue because it forces me to write dates in US date format in to parameters. This is what I've tried so far:
Setting Locale to UK date (as source data is in UK date format)
Setting Regional settings to UK
Splitting the date column (which is displayed in US format), reordering the month and day columns, and the merging the day, month, year column with a "/" separator. When I then set the data format to "date", it just changes the date back around to US date format
Checked windows settings on my laptop which are set to UK
Is there a setting in powerquery that I'm missing? I'd like to be able to enter a UK date format in to parameters as I won't be the only one using the spreadsheet and currently it will be very prone to errors especially for the first 12 days of each month.
Thankyou!
You can change type "Using locale" and set UK format.
Right click on column name > Change type > Using locale > pick type and format
Corresponding code would be:
= Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Sorted Rows", {{"date", type date}}, "en-GB")
I'm currently building dashboards in Google Sheets and have run into a consistent issue with dates being displayed as a number opposed to a date format. EX: 43626 opposed to 6/11/19.
This data is being pulled from form sheet into a database, then queried into the dashboard spreadsheet where it is coming through as a number sequence opposed to readable date format. Currently have tried to use the DATEVALUE to reformat, as well as attempted to reformat the cell into a date format in both dashboard and database locations, with no luck.
//What I've tried
=TargetCell
43626
=DATEVALUE(TargetCell)
43626
=TargetCell //Reformatted as any Date format
43626
I was expecting the following
=DATEVALUE(TargetCell)
6/11/19
OR:
=TargetCell //Reformatted as any Date format
6/11/19
you got it wrong... function DATEVALUE creates 43626 from 6/11/2019
if you want to reverse it you need to use either:
internal custom date formatting (does not work all the times)
TEXT formula like: =TEXT(43626, "m/d/yy")
QUERY parameter format like: =QUERY(A:B, "format A 'm/d/yy'", 0)
or QUERY parameter toDate like: =QUERY(A:B, "toDate(A)", 0)
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/querylanguage#top_of_page
I have a drop-down list of dates I want users of a form to select from. I have tried mm/dd//yy, mm/dd/yyyy, yyyy-mm-dd, yyyy/mm/dd and MMM-DD-YYY, but the data that ends up in the Sheet is always 12/31/1969 (25568.6666666667 if I change the display format). What format can I use to get a date successfully imported?
The answer in this thread didn't work for me: What format is required to import a date into google spreadsheet
The format mm/dd/yyyy works; I had a problem in the naming of the columns of the spreadsheet which was the source of the problem.
I uploaded and parsed through an excel sheet using cfspreadsheet and inserted all the values into database and the problem is that [my excel sheet has a date range from 1/2/2016 to 29/02/2016,from 1/2/16 to 12/2/2016 it is right aligned in excelsheet and remaining is left aligned...]. The value is being inserted into the db but I cannot able to fetch the values from 1-12 using where condition in db. I tried manually changing the date format in my excel sheet..what happened is
..02 January 2016
02 February 2016
.
.
02 December 2016
13/02/2016
14/02/2016
.
.
up to 02/12/2016[mm/dd/yy] it is displaying dd as month notation and from 13/02/2016[dd/mm/yyy] it is displaying properly, I tried with all formatting options, and I need to implement it in code. I think while downloading the data itself the date is not getting formatted properly, I tried with different excel sheet but of no use...and I tried converting these dates into specific format using coldfusion code and but it doesn't works for me..
<cfset sheet = spreadSheetRead("D:\file123\final1231.xls")>
<cfset SpreadSheetFormatColumn(sheet,{dataFormat="yyyy-mm-dd"},3)>
<cfset SpreadSheetWrite(sheet,"D:\file123\final1232",true)>
can any one help me in this?
What looks to me is that locale is set to 'English (United States)' in your excel and that is why for first 12 rows your excel is treating values as valid date but starting 13th row the data is invalid and hence excel is treating it as string (hence left aligned). Try manually changing excel locale to 'English (India)' or similar and you will see data aligned properly.
Also Cold Fusion internal date-time format is American (mm/dd/yyyy) and by default will interpret date and time into American format. I think while inserting data you can create date with something like below to make sure what data gets inserted:
#createDate(listLast(dt,"/"),listFirst(listRest(dt,"/"),"/"),listFirst(dt,"/"))#
Here dt is the data column that you want to insert. You may need to put some checks, based on the data, to avoid any run time errors.
I selected tomorrow's date (8/21/2014) from the data picker field of a Google Form submission, and the value "41872" is returned in the spreadsheet.
What format is this date format?
I need to convert this date format to the MM/dd/yyyy format using script, as formatting the Date column using the Format menu only updates the rows that are currently available...not the new rows that will be there when new form submissions come in.
How do I make this conversion?
I am not sure, but your issue seems to be very basic. Its about the cell formatting as like we do in Ms Excel.
For Google spreadsheet inorder to format a cell or a range,
1. Select the Range
2. On menu, Go To Format->Number->Date (and then select the required format)
Does this works?
I had the same confusion. All you need to do is just change the format from the menu Format->Number->Date & Time