I have a date column with YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS AM/PM format in Excel file(xlsx).
But when I am trying to save it in CSV format then the values in date column converts to MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM .
But I want to keep the values in the same format.
Please help me to solve this and Thanks in advance.
Use Custom format as yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss AM/PM in Type text box and save as csv should work
This is a well known problem with CSVs. You can't provide any sort of formatting information about the column to excel, and so it takes liberties with dates. One way around it is to trick excel into processing the column as a string value, instead of a date value, by wrapping it in ="", so an example csv might look like this:
Sample.csv
Name,Date,Note
Foo,="2014/12/03 12:14:15 AM",Bla
Bar,="2012/11/13 3:14:15 PM",Bla Bla
Excel will preserve the date format because it will process it as a string value, so it will not modify it in any way.
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I have a date field where the format is (example) 20170101.
When I try to convert this field to short date, it comes up as "###".
I need the date in the format of 1/1/2017.
Can someone help?
Thanks!
The data is not a date but a number and by simply changing the format will try to return a date that is 20,170,101 days from 1/1/1900. And Excel stops recognizing dates after 12/31/9999. This would be well beyond that, roughly 45 thousand years beyond that.
you can use a helper column with the following formula:
=--REPLACE(REPLACE(A1,7,0,"/"),5,0,"/")
Format it as desired.
Then you can copy paste just the value over the original.
I have a date/time field extracted from SQL.
Value is 2016-08-25-00.56.09.861000
I want to just get the time out of this to check if the time is before or after 9am.
I have extracted the time:
=RIGHT(A1, LEN(A1)-11)
Is there a way to then convert this to time format 00:59:09 that I can then use to compare against 09:00:00?
Thanks
Try this
=TIME(MID(A1,FIND(".",A1,1)-2,2),MID(A1,FIND(".",A1,1)+1,2),MID(A1,FIND(".",A1,1)+4,2))
after that convert result to hh:mm:ss by using format cell
Since your data in A1 is a defined format, you can use:
=TIMEVALUE(SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,12,8),".",":"))
And format the cell containing this formula as a time.
i have a datetime in the format : 26FEB2016:00:00:00.000000 in my excel sheet
i want it to be in 02/26/2016 format.
I tried using the format tool but it dint work.
How can i do this conversion ?
Remove the first : between the date and the time.
You can do this with a formula:
=--SUBSTITUTE(A1,":"," ",1)
Then format the cell in manner of your choosing.
I have dates in CSV like this
2015-08-04 10:09:25.940
Default Excel representation of this value is
09:25.9
Could you please provide exact steps to force Excel to show something sane?
Right Clic: Format Cell :
Custom: "dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss.000"
I am getting data in a CSV file with data column having format e.g. 1987-09-17T00:00:00.000-06:00.
When I apply date formatting on it to say DD/MM/YYYY, it doesn't change to 17/09/1987.
Is there a way to achieve this?
Thanks!
Excel will assume it is text because it is not in a format it recognises as being a date. You could use LEFT() and MID() functions to split out the parts you want as arguments in the DATE() function. Eg
=DATE(left(A1,4),(MID(A1,6,2),MID(A1,9,2))