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Filter date stored as text

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Posted on by KS-10020856-0
Hello,
Got SharePoint list where date+time stored as text in columns:
How can i filter data to "Get items" only from Now() -1 day?
 
Need to get this items, copy it to another list and then delete it from source list
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    David_MA 14,956 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Is the field in your SharePoint list a text field or a date/time field? If it is a date field, you would use this in the filter query:
     
    Time_out_text gt 'subtractFromTime(startOfDay(utcNow()), 1, 'Day')'
     
    You would, of course, use the expression builder for the text between the single quotes. Filter queries require the date to be in ISO8601 format, which this will do. If you field in SharePoint is a date field, despite how it displays on your screen in SharePoint, it is always stored in ISO8601 format in SharePoint and in the UTC time zone.
     
    This is what the expression returns:
     
    If you really want it to be one day less than when the flow runs, remove startOfDay() from the expression.

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