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Marius1280
Aug 29, 2024Copper Contributor
Power Query inserts wrong dates to Excel
Hello, I am trying to connect an external CSV-file and parse the data into Excel, so that I can use it there. The CSV-file contains one column of timestamps in the format of "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss...
PeterBartholomew1
Nov 19, 2024Silver Contributor
I must admit, I was surprised to see the US/Liberia date format as the result of importing ISO dates in text format.
SergeiBaklan
Nov 20, 2024Diamond Contributor
PeterBartholomew1 , what exactly do you mean under importing ISO dates in text format ?
- PeterBartholomew1Nov 20, 2024Silver Contributor
I simple meant a text string (CSV file or text field in Excel) in the format "yyyy-mm-dd" rather than being held as numbers, as is usual for Excel calculation. On my machine PQ recognises these as dates and displays them as non-US locale values.
- SergeiBaklanNov 20, 2024Diamond Contributor
That was such bug some ago. Bot now I can't reproduce it, both 2412.18314.20000 (Beta) and 2410.18129.20158 (Current).