Issue with Formatting Date and Adding into Excel

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Hi,

I have a Power App which when a form is entered and the submit button is pressed, it starts a flow to pass the selected date in the form into Excel. For some reason, the date is not formatting as 'dd/mm/yyyy' as I would like. It appears in excel as 'mm/dd/yyyy'. I have tried using the parseDateTime expression to then format this in a compose action but it doesn't seem to work. I have found that when a date like 23/12/2024 is entered it will then give an error and say it's not in the ISO 8601 format, if a date like 09/12/2024 is entered it will usually work. Please see pictures below of my flow and the actions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

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Srini007 3,463 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @BS10,

The issue here is powerautomate expects ISO 8601 format which is 2024-12-23, In this case you are passing 23-12-2024 which causes the issue.

Try to place a compose and write the expression as formatDateTime('DateString', yyyy-MM-dd)

After that you can continue the steps

Let us know if you are facing any issue

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BS10 658 on at

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Hi @Srini007,

Thank you for your reply, I really appreciate it. I have added the expression below to the first compose action

formatDateTime(triggerBody()?['text_3'],'yyyy-MM-dd')

I then added another compose and set this expression to

formatDateTime(outputs('Compose'),'dd/MM/yyyy')

This worked for a date when I entered 05/12/2024 which is correct but when I tried 20/11/2024 I got the same error as before, the value provided for date time string '20/11/2024' was not valid. The datetime string must match ISO 8601 format.

Thank you

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Srini007 3,463 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @BS10,

Apologies for the error, you can try below expression

formatDateTime(concat(split(triggerBody()?['text_3'], '/')[2], '-', split(triggerBody()?['text_3'], '/')[1], '-', split(triggerBody()?['text_3'], '/')[0]), 'yyyy-MM-dd')

This way you can achieve the required output

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