I am trying to use the so called DateDiff function to subtract the End Date from the Start Date and obtain the numbers of days apart.For example:
10/11/1995 - 7/11/1995 = 3 (extract the 'dd' from DD/MM/YYYY format)
As date values are double with the integer part counting for a day, you can use this simple expression:
[Due Date]-[Start Date]
or, for integer days only:
Fix([Due Date]-[Start Date])
That said, you should a query for tasks like this.
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I'm trying to find out the weekday i.e Mon, Tue, Wed etc. from a date-range formatted as yyyy mm dd
I tried to use the formula format(day(Date Table),"ddd"), but the weekday is wrong. In my example, the output of 2020.01.01 gives Sunday, but it should be Wednesday.
I think your formula is wrong:
Instead of
format(day(Date Table),"ddd")
Use
format(<Target Table>[<date column>],"ddd")
I.e. Omit the DAX DAY call. This is resulting in the day of the month (1..31) being passed to the format function.
When you use the DAY function in DAX, it returns the day of the month (1 through 31).
Thus DAY ( DATE ( 2020, 1, 1) ) = 1 which means you're trying to format the number 1 as a date. Integers are interpreted as days since 1899/12/30 when treated as a date, so 1 corresponds to 1899/12/31, which happened to be a Sunday. Thus FORMAT(1, "ddd") = "Sun".
There's no reason to get DAY involved here. You can simply write
Day = FORMAT ( 'Calendar'[Date], "ddd" )
I have a column called PairDt, a string that contains a date value in the last 5 characters. I want to compare that date value with the date value in the Day column, which contains dates in the YYYY-MM-DD format.
PairDt Day
----------------------------------
DCS-CNY-Yunbi-42606 2016-08-24
DCS-CNY-Yunbi-42607 2016-08-25
DCS-CNY-Yunbi-42608 2016-08-26
DCS-CNY-Yunbi-42609 2016-08-27
DCS-CNY-Yunbi-42610 2016-08-28
How do I convert Day to a value?
I'm trying to isolate Date values in PairDt that does not match the date value in Days
This 5 digit number at the end of PairDt looks like number of days since December 30th 1899. To convert this number to date use DATEADD to add as many days. To convert a date to number, use DATEDIFF to calculate the number of days. Something like this code:
declare #PairDt varchar(50) = 'DCS-CNY-Yunbi-42606', #Day date = '2016-08-24'
select DATEADD(d, cast(right(#PairDt, 5) as int), '1899-12-30'), DATEDIFF(day, '1899-12-30', #Day)
I'm trying to manipulate a date value to go back in time exactly 1 ISO-8601 year.
The following does not work, but best describes what I want to accomplish:
date_add(date '2018-01-03', interval -1 isoyear)
I tried string conversion as an intermediate step, but that doesn't work either:
select parse_date('%G%V%u',safe_cast(safe_cast(format_date('%G%V%u',date '2018-01-03') as int64)-1000 as string))
The error provided for the last one is "Failed to parse input string "2017013"". I don't understand why, this should always resolve to a unique date value.
Is there another way in which I can subtract an ISO year from a date?
This gives the corresponding day of the previous ISO year by subtracting the appropriate number of weeks from the date. I based the calculation on the description of weeks per year from the Wikipedia page:
CREATE TEMP FUNCTION IsLongYear(d DATE) AS (
-- Year starting on Thursday
EXTRACT(DAYOFWEEK FROM DATE_TRUNC(d, YEAR)) = 5 OR
-- Leap year starting on Wednesday
(EXTRACT(DAY FROM DATE_ADD(DATE(EXTRACT(YEAR FROM d), 2, 28), INTERVAL 1 DAY)) = 29
AND EXTRACT(DAYOFWEEK FROM DATE_TRUNC(d, YEAR)) = 4)
);
CREATE TEMP FUNCTION PreviousIsoYear(d DATE) AS (
DATE_SUB(d, INTERVAL IF(IsLongYear(d), 53, 52) WEEK)
);
SELECT PreviousIsoYear('2018-01-03');
This returns 2017-01-04, which is the third day of the 2017 ISO year. 2018-01-03 is the third day of the 2018 ISO year.
I have a table with records, where each record has a date column, then a start time column and end time column.
I am trying to do a datediff to get the duration in hours from start to end date with DateDiff('s',[Start Date[,[End Date])/3600.
This works perfectly for End dates that are on same day as date column, but sometimes the end date would be the next day like 12:45 AM. The date diff will give me a large negative number, how do I let it know its next day?
I dont own the data, so not much I can do with the table
Thanks!
Try something like this:
DateDiff('s',[Start Date],DateAdd('d',IIF([End date]<[Start Date],1,0),[End Date]))/3600
It can be done with pure math:
TotalHours = TimeValue(CDate([End Date] - [Start Date] + 1)) * 24
How do I subtract 30 days from a date in PowerBuilder?
I have the following code that returns today's date in a parameter, but I need today - 30 days:
dw_1.setitem(1, "begin_datetime",
datetime(today(), Now()))
you're probably looking for the RelativeDate function. Unfortunately, it takes a Date and not a DateTime as a parameter, but we can get around that:
dw_1.setItem(1, "begin_datetime", DateTime( RelativeDate( today(), -30), Now() )