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Challenge #46: Formatting a Date from an Integer

dillon_bok
8 - Asteroid
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ChrisMelck
8 - Asteroid
 
anaibeth
8 - Asteroid

It's exciting to solve this and the going through the solutions other have posted so I can learn new tools!!!

 

Here's my solution anyways :) 

justindavis
10 - Fireball
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I know I can do all of this in one formula expression, just finding working with dates a bit finicky compared to what I'm used to in SQL. But this didn't take too long!

gautamsawant93
7 - Meteor

Here's my solution. I used the formula tool and date-time tool.

RWvanLeeuwen
11 - Bolide
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I should remember to use yyyyMMdd instead of yyyymmdd when parsing dates46.png
garthn555
8 - Asteroid
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This is very simple

Lily_Unsworth
8 - Asteroid
 
joshuaburkhow
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

This was a good one where I've become a huge fan of @Kenda DateTime macro...

Joshua Burkhow - Alteryx Ace | Global Alteryx Architect @PwC | Blogger @ AlterTricks
Shaun_Rheeder
8 - Asteroid

Lesson learnt. To focus on DateParseFunction...

 

I basically did what the function does except in more steps...