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I'm trying to convert a text string into a date in Notion to build a birthday reminder system in my database.
Bigger picture, I want a database view with the birthdays that are coming up in the next month. Some people I know their actual date of birth, and for others I only know their birthday. I enter the birthdate for the people whose birth year I don't know as the current year.
The filters allow you to select a date relative to the present, but not a date whose anniversary is coming up. So to fix this, I am creating a field that reformats the birthdate as a date in the current year, and filtering based on that.
I successfully built the new date, but it is a text string. In order for the filters to work, it needs to be formatted as a date.
I tried formatDate but that gives me an error.
For example:
formatDate(concat(prop("Birthday"), ", ", prop("thisYear")), "MMMM D YYYY")
Gives error:
Type mismatch concat(prop("Birthday"), ", ", prop("thisYear")) is not a Date.
It appears formatDate only reformats an existing date, it doesn't convert a string into a date. I can't find a function that converts a string into a date. How would one do that?
to convert the date you have in text format into a prop date, you have to start from 01 Jan 1970, this is the date Notion use to refer every single date into ms.
With this formula you will have 01 Jan 1970 from now:
dateAdd(dateSubtract(dateSubtract(dateSubtract(dateSubtract(dateSubtract(now(),
year(now()) - 1970, "years"), month(now()), "months"), date(now()),
"days"), hour(now()), "hours"), minute(now()), "minutes"), 1, "days")
Now you have to add to this date months, year and days you have into your birthday prop.
To do this you simply have to use he dateAdd formula, so you will have:
dateAdd(dateAdd(dateAdd(dateSubtract(dateSubtract(dateSubtract(dateSubtract(dateSubtract(now(),
year(now()) - 1970, "years"), month(now()), "months"), date(now()),
"days"), hour(now()), "hours"), minute(now()), "minutes"),
prop("Giorni"), "days"), prop("Mese") - 1, "months"), prop("Anno") -
1970, "years")
You have to consider that in my example, prop("Giorni"), prop("Mese") and prop("Anno") are already numbers.
If you have them into a text field you first have to extract them with the slice formula and convert them into number with toNumber formula.
I hope I helped you, sorry for my English but I'm not native English speaker.
Bye
i have do the research all over the internet but most of the references is about dd/mm/yy or dd.mm.yy but i want something like dd mmmm yyyy (between are using space)
and i have tried to used
=MID(A1,SEARCH("?? ????? ????",A1),13)
to extract the date from the text string but it will error in some cell such as display the text not date.
my date will be in 2 type below:
on (1 April 2020)
on 1 April 2020
if on has CONCAT and FILTERXML:
=CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(following::*[1],"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),""))&" "&CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(.,"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),""))&" "&CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(preceding::*[1],"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),""))
Note: this returns the string. If one wants a true date then:
=--(CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(following::*[1],"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),""))&" "&CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(.,"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),""))&" "&CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(preceding::*[1],"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),"")))
And format the date as desired.
I have this kinf of date format :
Mon, Nov 19, 2018
And I want it in a french short date format (DD/MM/YYY)
But i can't resolve it with basic date format with excel.
Any ideas ?
You can use MATCH to return the correct month:
=DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MATCH(TRIM(MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,3)),{"Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"},0),MID(A1,FIND("}}}",SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","}}}",2))+1,2))
To convert your text into a date, you can use this formula (assuming the date in text format is in cell C15):
=DATE(RIGHT(C15,4),IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Jan"),01,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Feb"),02,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Mar"),03,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Apr"),04,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"May"),05,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Jun"),06,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Jul"),07,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Aug"),08,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Sep"),09,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Oct"),10,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Nov"),11,IF(EXACT(MID(C15,6,3),"Dec"),12)))))))))))),MID(C15,10,2))
Then you get an Excel date that is easier to work with.
I have a string like "Saturday, November 28, 2015 11:59:59 PM GMT-5" in an Excel spreadsheet and would like to remove the Day of the week and Time Zone before importing it to Access using VBA. I tried :
ExcelWorksheet.Cells(1 + counter, nIdCol) = left((ExcelWorksheet.Cells(1 + counter, nIdCol)), Find(" GMT", ExcelWorksheet.Cells(1 + counter, nIdCol) - 1)) "
but found that "Find" is not an Access function.
Any idea to do it?
If you want to do it in Excel, before importing to Access with VBA, you can use this formula to trim them. Note: I'm assuming that each of your strings will have "GMT" at the end to denote the time zone, and will have a , after the day of the week.
If Saturday, November 28, 2015 11:59:59 PM GMT-5 is in A1, use this formula in B1:
=TRIM(MID(A1,SEARCH(", ",A1)+1,SEARCH("GMT",A1)-SEARCH(", ",A1)-2))
Try using the Instr() function. Replace Find("GMT") with
Instr(string:=ExcelWorksheet.Cells(1 + counter, nIdCol).Value, substring:="GMT") - 1
More on the Instr() function: http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/formulas/instr.php
I'm working with a date and time format from the Twitter API. It looks like this:
Tue Nov 26 20:44:15 +0000 2013
Is there a formula to convert this to a format that could be sorted chronologically? I don't need the +0000. Also not concerned about the day of week.
=DATEVALUE(MID(A1,9,3) & MID(A1,4,5) & RIGHT(A1,4)) + TIMEVALUE(MID(A1,11,9))
Then format as you like. As requested you would want a Custom Format of mmm dd HH:mm yyyy
Try this, assuming that your string is in A1:
=DATETIME(MID(A1, 5, 16) & MID(A1, 27, 4))
The two MID formulas cut out the parts of the string you want, namely the month, day, time, and year, but exclude the day of the week and the timezone. This produces a string that the DATETIME function can automatically recognize and covert into a native Excel date format.