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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

Hello, 

 

I am new to Power Automate/Flows and just created my first very basic flow, which is to email results from a Microsoft Form through email. 

 

My issue is that the date format on the Microsoft Form is showing M/d/yyyy:

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But when the email comes in, it shows in yyyy/m/d format:

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Any suggestions for getting the email to show the MM/DD/YYYY using the dynamic content from the Form? 

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    DamoBird365 8,942 Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Anonymous 

     

    You need to use formatdatetime.  Using the expression builder type in formatdatetime( ,'MM/dd/yyyy') and then choose the dynamic tab and select the answer for the date so that it inserts as the 1st parameter of formatdatetime (i.e. before the comma ,).

     

    Note that month is represented by capital MM.

     

    Damien

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