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Microsoft forms date picker response represented incorrectly in email

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Posted on by Henry G Smith 166

Hi, 

 

I create a Microsoft forms originally starting from excel. One of the questions requires a start date (or specific date). I have created a flow that when it is two weeks out from that specific date an automated email is sent out to specific employees. 

 

In that email I have the responses from the Microsoft form, including the answer/response of the date picker. Instead of reading as a normal date e.g. 01/01/2022 - the response is coming up as "Start Date: 44654" 

 

Does anyone know why it is not showing the date but rather a bunch of random numbers? 

 

This is the flow I made: 

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The 14 day compose is: 

formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(),14),'MM/dd/yyyy')
 
and the second compose is: 
 addDays('1899-12-30', int(item()['Start Date']), 'MM/dd/yyyy')
 
Hopefully someone can help out?
 
Regards,
HS
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    Henry G Smith Profile Picture
    Henry G Smith 166 on at

    I found an alternative. I just used my compose date instead and it worked!

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

    Hi @DynamicsHS 

    Glad that you have resolved your problem.

    Because Excel stores internally the dates as sequential serial numbers starting from 1900-01-00, so it shows the serial number in Flow.

    You can select ISO 8601 in the Datetime Format field, then the dates will be listed in a format that is directly readable.

    vLilyWmsft_5-1648005838267.png

    vLilyWmsft_3-1648005678439.png

    Then you can directly format this date in the format you want.

    formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['Start Date'],'MM/dd/yyyy')

    vLilyWmsft_4-1648005717412.png

    vLilyWmsft_2-1648005557788.png

    Best Regards.

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