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Why is Excel ouputting dates in this format when i have it set to ISO 8601

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I have a flow where it takes dates from excel and puts them into SharePoint list, the date format is set to ISO 8601, but the dates outputted are still in the number format, why?

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    v-xiaochen-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Kristupas5514 ,

     

    Please make sure the first row of the date column has a value. Otherwise it may return the number.

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    Best Regards,

    Wearsky

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    73 on at

    it does have a value although not a date since the excel file is a bit messy and I can't do anything about it

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  • v-xiaochen-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Kristupas5514 ,

     

    Do you want to convert 5.07 to date time ‘1/5/1900 1:40:48 AM‘?

    Please try to format the column.

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    Best Regards,

    Wearsky

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    73 on at

    I didn't want to convert it but it seems there is no other way for now until the spreadsheet gets fixed, also it sometimes works with those numbers sometimes doesn't but if I convert it to short date in excel everything seems to work

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    73 on at

    Now it doesn't work again I'm so confused

    This works:

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    This doesn't:

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    73 on at

    Thanks that seems to have solved the problem

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