I have this column in excel in general cell format that contains the date in the following format. eg "18-05-2013" which is "DD-MM-YYYY".
In access, it somehow comes out automatically in this format "##/##/****".
Where ## and ## they sometime treat it as day, sometimes treat it as the month.
Somehow it is messed up. What is the way to format given my situation?
The format I want it to be is "DD/MM/YYYY" in access
A quick use of the replace function solved it!
Hiring Date: Replace([Hire Date],"-","/")
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long time viewer, first time poster.
The issue I am struggling with relates to how my timestamp data appears in excel once I've run my code in snowflake and exported it to CSV. Unfortunately at the moment I am required to double click on these timestamp cells, once in exported into excel, for the true format (how it appears in results in snowflake) to appear.
There is a manual workaround to amend once the data is in excel, however I am automating this report for a client and therefore it must be presented correctly for them prior to the export.
As it stands (see below) the timestamp begins with YYYY-MM-DD and I have been asked to flip this firstly, to begin with DD. I thought that given I need to reformat the current timestamp, I may as well set it up correctly so the timestamp perhaps comes out as text, within the csv export? (from what I have read in other forums if you convert to text it is displayed in excel exactly how it appears in snowflake).
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As you can see, I continue to get the "Cant Parse" error. The example timestamp given, is row 1 of the 'QuoteDate' variable.
The second part of the issue (or really the primary part of the issue) is how the timestamp completely changes format when exported (CSV) to excel. In the screen shot below I have double clicked the first 3 rows, leaving row 4 selected in order to show you all the error - which is the formula bar displays the correct format but the cell itself does not.
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I hope this all makes sense and would love any assistance on how to amend this timestamp issue to run the code correctly, and present my client with a properly formatted timestamp within their extract.
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For changing format
SELECT to_char ( to_timestamp ('2019-01-02 09:36:22.507' , 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF') , 'DD-MM-YYYY HH24:MI:SS.FF') AS TS
Timestamp/dates are stored as NUMBER in database, you need to convert in required format for correct display.
to_timestamp --> Converts an input expression into the corresponding timestamp. This expects the input to be in the format provided as second argument.
to_char --> Converts the input expression to a string format.
For preserving data format while converting from csv to excel check Saving to CSV in Excel loses regional date format
I'm experiencing an issue where when I import using SQL import, or ETL job, a CSV Excel type file into SQL that the dates are being converted or altered to something else.
I'm trying to ID a pattern but for example here are two date samples. before and after:
Before After
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30/01/2015 20/01/1930
11/09/2015 20/09/2011
Seems like the day number is being used to replace the year portion, and in first case century reverts to 19, and the original century portion is, in some cases, overwriting the day, if that makes sense?
I can't see why it would do this, none of the other files I had done this, and they were all Excel CSV files. They were transferred the same way to the same data mart from the same file location.
It's scary to think one file can suddenly do this with no error being raised, and just lucky it was spotted in the end reports.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Andrew
Depends on the SQL dialect you are using. For example, Mysql only accepts dates in YYYY-MM-DD format.
The Date format in excel is 06/09/2015.
To make sure everything is okay, just explicitly set the Date format in Excel.
In order to change the date format in excel: right click on the top cell. Choose format cells from the drop down list. change the local to something like 'Afrikans'. Choose the format that looks like 2001-03-14. Use the top cell to fill down. Then save the document.
I want to show the Purchase_Date in dd/mm/yy format . I already set the Format in form properties as dd/mm/yy
When i select a cell in database view it shows the date in dd/mm/yy but it still shows the date in mm/dd/yy otherwise
I need 05/02/14 to show as 02/05/14 at all times
This is by design. When the control gets focus, it will revert to the default format as to the settings in Windows.
A workaround can be to use three concatenated textboxes, but it requires some code to operate nicely.
You have to go to the Region and Language in the Control Panel and choose "English (Autralia)" as the format in the formats tab. Then change the short date format from the option below as you require. The format you want is available there.
Edit:
A better way to do it is to apply your own format. In the Format property of the properties of the Date/Time field, you can type in the format you want using placeholders and separators.
Hope this solves your problem.
i'm trying to specify dd/mm/yyyy dateformat for date/time parameter in SSRS 2008 R2.
My computers datetime format is mm-dd-yyyy.
My requirement is, i want to show date format at dd/mm/yyyy irrespective of the system/server date format.
I've already tried CDate(Format(Today,"dd/mm/yyyy")) which didn't work. one very strange thing i observed is, it shows dd/mm/yyyy format only for dates on or before 12-MM-yyyy, and 13 onwards it gives error: Conversion from string '25-04-2014' to type Date is not valid. (Possibly it is trying to map 25(daypart) with MM-dd-yyyy (month part)) which is out of range of total months i.e. 12)
my research on internet says it is a bug in BIDS 2008.
What do i do to display date as dd/mm/yyyy ??
I don't have enough reputation to comment, but I did notice that you failed to put "()" after "Today". If I'm not mistaken you must put Today() for that function to work. Also, you might want to try putting CDate Around the Today() function. You shouldn't need it, but it's worth a shot. Also, for some odd reason, in my experience, you must capitalize MM for format to work correctly.
Like #Aditaya said, it should be =format(Today(),"dd/MM/yyyy")
The expression I usually use is:
=FormatDateTime(Fields!Date.Value, DateFormat.ShortDate)
However, this may be region specific.
Rather than writing an expression to do the formatting, you can also use the Textbox Format Property. But first you need to make sure that the data is in a date format. So use the CDate function on your column like this:
=CDate(Fields!Date.Value)
Then in the textbox properties go to the Number tab. Select Date for the category. Then you can select whichever format you want or use a Custom format. This will change how the column displays when you run the report.
I have a spreadsheet which is a report from an external supplier. The date columns are formatted completely different from how a little acccess database works, so i decided to record a macro in excel to alter the 3 columns to a dd/mm/yyyy format (im uk btw). This all works great and the column isshowing as above and is listed as a 'DATE' format also.
Now i use access to link to this excel sheet by means of a linked table, but i noticed that any queries that i wish to filter on those fields in the form of a where clause, it does not pull in the expected result IE it pulls all dates and not the ones between what i asked for in the queryalmost as if it is not recognizing them as dates see the where clause below
WHERE LatestGamma.ConfirmedPortingDate Between [Please Provide 1st Date (dd/mm/yyyy)] And [Please Provide 2nd Date (dd/mm/yyyy)];
I also tested it by using actual dates in the between cluase and it still appears to ignore it.
When i look at the properties of linked table for those columns, it shows that the fields are: dd/mm/yyyy;# but are showing as text??
When i look at the excel macro to see what code the macro used for changing the date format of the columns i see:
Columns("F:H").Select
Selection.NumberFormat = "dd/mm/yyyy;#"
I have another excel sheet that is used as a linked table and date columns are working fine and show as date/time and not Text. Its almost as if excel is putting some meta data into the columns that is making access interprate them as text (even though they are formatted as date)
Im stuck her some help/advise would be great
Its hard to tell without looking at the file, but it seems the main culprit is the excel macro which is not converting the string to date format correctly. You can try converting string into date format by using something like this in excel VBA
Sub convert()
Dim str1 As String
str1 = Range("f6").Value
startdate = CDate(str1)
End Sub
You probably will have to loop thru all the cells to convert the string (text) into date format.
Sorted it in the end. It was more or less what i was thinking IE the column although was showing as a Date type seemed to be storing it as some sort of text. Anyway the way round it was to use the text to columns button and force it to be a date in DMY format.
Once i had tried it i then recorded the actions as a macro and copied the resulting code to my main macro at the end, bingo ! Access now sees it as a date and not text.
Not sure if it is a bug or not but Excel can be a real pain sometimes especially with phone numbers, having to store them as a data type text to keep the leading zero and then immediately converting them to General to allow vlookups etc. I guess that is the same sort of thinkg going on above showing as a date yet actually having like a suedo text meta thing going on...