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Changing my string text to a date format

alvingan43
5 - Atom

Hi!

 

How can i change my date to show the weekday of it 
example,  '1 July 2015' to 'Monday'

currently the text '1 july 2015' is a V_String data type
Thanks!!

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JosephSerpis
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @alvingan43 you are going to need to parse your date into a ISO format YYYY-MM-DD then format it into the date. You can do this in a formula tool using the Datetime parse and datetime format forumlas.

 

 

Datetimeformat(DateTimeParse([Date],"%d %B %Y"),"%A")

 

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alvingan43
5 - Atom

This helped a lot!! thanks!!

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