Convert a date from M/D/Y or D/M/Y format to number

[AlvAlRuGon]

Hi everyone

I want to thank you all for all for contributing to this community. I have found a lot of solutions to issues looking at this forum.

I'm currently facing some issue trying to convert a date to number (see the sample attached to this message). Basically I need to convert a date in Month/Day/Year formal, to number (00000)

For example, today is 2/25/2020, and translated to number would be 43886.

Let me know if additional information is required.

Thank you all.

Alan

[T_Willins · Accepted solution]

Hi @AlvAlRuGon,

This number is the number of days since 01/01/1900, which can be found using a DateTimeDiff formula:  DateTimeDiff([DateTime_Out],ToDate("1900-01-01"),"days")+2  where DateTime_Out is the column with the date in question.  See attached workflow for an example (DateTime tool only needed for formatting).

[AlvAlRuGon]

I'm surprised of two things: how fast the response time is, and how easy it was. I tried lots of stuff before your solution.

Thanks a lot