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.
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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'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 would like to display a list of dates in a view, but the problem is that the dates are recorded in SQL format.
I would like to convert this date to my local date format, I'd have to be able to change the field data output format
How can I do this??
Thanks by advance
I found this solution :
I made modification in the "hook_field_formatter_view()" of my date-time field module.
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
I need to read an excel spreadsheet with date format m/d/y into database. However, PHPExcel is outputting the wrong date because it thinks the date format is d/m/y.
How can I tell PHPExcel reader object to use the format m/d/y?
If the date is simply a string in the excel file, then you can use the standard PHP functions for string to date conversion (either strtotime() or DateTime objects). If the date is stored as an Excel timestamp, then you can use the PHPExcel built-in functions (PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHP() or PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHPObject()) to convert from the Excel timestamp value to a PHP/Unix timestamp or DateTime object, and then use the standard PHP date functions or DateTime methods to format it however you wish.
For clarity if other people encounter this problem:
Spreadsheet contains date 02/04/2014
You/Client/Boss entered date to be: m/d/y or February 4th, 2014
PHPExcel sees it as: d/m/y or April 2nd, 2014
The solution is to avoid the situation altogether by using the correct date formatting when the spreadsheet is created or use general formatting instead.
Q) What do I do if my client provided the spreadsheet to me?
A) Search for an entire day for a solution until you come to the same conclusion as I did or you can save yourself time and ask the client to send you another spreadsheet with the correct formatting.