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Date conversion

timsmith
6 - Meteoroid

Hi, I've been looking through the forums but haven't quite figured out my date conversion problem.

 

I've gotten the date into this format:

 

3 Feb. 2008

 

and have tried this formula to get it into a date format:

 

DateTimeFormat(DateTimeParse([Date2],'%d/%b/%Y'),'%m-%d-%Y')

 

but I get null values where the day is a single digit, e.g.: 3 Feb. 2008

 

Specifically, I get a message that the day of month value is out of range 1..31.  Somehow, when the day is a single digit, the month value isn't seen properly.

 

Thank you for any help.

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timsmith
6 - Meteoroid

When I added a full year's worth of data, I see that because "May" is not abbreviated with a period at the end, I get null values for all dates in May.  Is there any way to adjust the Regex so that it works for May dates?

Tim

MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

put the following in front of your formula:

 

REPLACE(

 

Then put this at the end:

 

,"May.",'May')

 

That will cause only May to lose the .

 

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timsmith
6 - Meteoroid

That works -- thanks very much!

-Tim

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