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Troubleshooting Date Format

synergy825
8 - Asteroid

I am having trouble figuring out a Date Format calculation.  The attached workflow was processing fine until this past Wednesday (3/1).  For some reason, it is reading it as January 3 instead of March 1.  It appears the calculation is having an issue when the day is a single digit.  However, it read 3/3 correctly.  I'm assuming it's because the digits are the same.

 

Here is the calculation formula:

 

DateTimeFormat(DateTimeAdd('1970-01-01',(tonumber([recordTimestamp])/1000),'second'),'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

 

Below are the dates in the dataset:

 

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I have also attached the workflow as well.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!

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Yoshiro_Fujimori
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

@synergy825 ,

I cannot find a problem in your workflow and formula.

 

How did you check the output .csv file?

If you use Excel, I doubt the wrong date conversion occurred in opening .csv by Excel, due to some local PC setting.

 

Another thing I am concerned is that you use V_WString type.

It would be safer to use DATETIME type when dealing with timestamp.

 

synergy825
8 - Asteroid

Hi @Yoshiro_Fujimori ,

 

Thank you for the reply.  I could not figure it out either, but I just created a new instance of Tableau and reconnected to the data output, and it now works.  Weird.  There must have been something that I had done in the initial setup.  Thanks for the response though.  Cheers!

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