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Posted on by Kasashii

I am using the Power Automate Desktop Version vor writing Data from Excel to an mysql databases.

Currently I have some issues to read a Time in the format hh:mm:ss which i load with PAD from an Excel file.

When I have this in a column:  17:55:35, PAD give me something like this: 0,74693287037037.

 

Does anyone have any idea how to get this loaded correctly from Excel so I can give it to the database via SQL?

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  • MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    When doing "Read from Excel," under Advanced, try, get cell contents as text:

    MichaelAnnis_1-1659474996037.png

     

    This should give you the 17:55:35 as a text value.  If you need it to be a time value, then use "Convert text to datetime" custom format hh:mm:ss.

     

    Good luck!

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