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")
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We have two date picker columns (from date and to date) in interactive grid. User can select these dates.
These have date format as DD-MON-YYYY and have set minimum and maximum dates set.
It works fine in English application.
We translated the application to ar-ae (Arabic).
In arbic, the dates are appearing as DD-MM-YYYY and system is not accepting these dates (if clicked that fiedl), saying that the format is invalid.
Probably due the same root cause, the minimum and maximum date conditions are also not satisfied.
English:
Arabic:
I have translated the application to Arabic. I have tried to remove the date format mast completely. I have tried to change date format from global attributes. None worked
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")
I need help to convert Numbers into date format using Power Query Editor in either Excel or PowerBI
The date appears in number form like this 930101 and I want to convert it to normal Uk date format
Not sure which one is month and which one is date among "0101" in your string. But you can handle this your self and follow this below steps for get your required output in Power Query Editor-
First, split your string value using fixed 2 character and your data will be divide into 3 column now. define which one is Year, Month and Day.
Now, merge those 3 column maintain the UK pattern DD/MM/YY using a separator "/" and you will get a string like "01/01/93".
Finally, create a custom column using the below code-
Date.From([Merged],"en-GB")
Here is the final output-
In the above image, you can see the date in still US format just because of my Laptop's locally setup.
I'm looking to have my field show "dd-mmm-yy" when a date is not entered into the field, so members don't get confused and frustrated when they try to put in a date such as 11/12/20 and don't realize it needs to be in day day, month month month, year year format. Is this possible to do through the property sheet?
[date format]
You can set the Format property of the textbox to:
dd-mm-yyyy;;;"dd-mm-yyyy"
though I believe it will add more confusion than help.
Another method for speedy input of dates is shown in my article:
Entering ISO formatted date with input mask and full validation in Microsoft Access
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