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Year number out of Range - Trying to format date

henrymk5
7 - Meteor

I'm trying to format date  3/31/2020 11:44 AM EDT to 2020-03-31 format. I have tried multiple different methods but I'm still continuing to receive the error message "Year number is out of range"

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can properly format the above date.

 

Thank you in advance!

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fmvizcaino
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @henrymk5 ,

 

In this case, you need to use the following custom format in the datetime tool.

MM/dd/yyyy %I:%M %P

 

You can find more here. https://help.alteryx.com/2020.1/Reference/Functions.htm

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Best,

Fernando Vizcaino

 

henrymk5
7 - Meteor

Sorry, maybe my question was not clear.

 

I want to go from 3/31/2020 11:44 AM EDT (before) and update to be 2020-03-31 (after).

 

None of the date/time functions seem to be working as it gives me an error.

fmvizcaino
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @henrymk5 

 

Workflow attached. Take a look at both examples, including time and not including as well.

 

Best,

Fernando Vizcaino

neilgallen
12 - Quasar

you can do this with a formula tool and the below formula:

 

datetimeparse([field],"%m/%d/%Y")

 

this will take the field and create the standard date format. 

henrymk5
7 - Meteor

Hi Fernando,

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

Did you update anything with your format. Please take a look at my dataset and my results as the configurations matches yours.

 

I'm not sure why I'm still receiving a cannot convert error.

 

For this example I'm giving you a small sample of a bigger excel input

 

henrymk5
7 - Meteor

My attachments did not work 🙂

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fmvizcaino
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @henrymk5 ,

 

You are not using the correct format, you need to select the format from the incoming field, which is MM/dd/yyyy and it will be converted to yyyy-mm-dd automatically

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henrymk5
7 - Meteor

Amazing!! Thanks for the good catch and solution @fmvizcaino !!!

 

 

henrymk5
7 - Meteor

This solution worked as well! Thank you 🙂

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