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I would like to take a date field form a sharepoint list from dynamic content and convert it to its integer value. I am not having any luck finding an expression that will do this. Please help!

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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Hi!

Which integer value? You mean to store it in an Excel?

So assuming you need to store today's date (2020-04-20) I would try with the following

add(div(sub(ticks('2020-04-20'),ticks('1900–01–01')),864000000000),2)

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yashag2255 24,769 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Anonymous

You can also checkout this article here: https://www.bythedevs.com/post/working-with-date-time-data-of-excel-in-power-automate

where I have explained how to work with Date and Time type columns in Excel but the integer value part for the date and the number value part for the time would just be applicable for any date time formatted string.

Hope this Helps!

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I would like to take a date in the format, 'MM/dd/yyyy' and convert it to its numeric value. So for example, 4/27/2020 would convert to 43948. Do you have an expression that could accomplish this?

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Hi @Anonymous

You first have to convert the date to yyyy-MM-dd format and only then use one of the formulas mentioned in the posts to convert it to the integer type.

So that could be done using the split expression where you split the current date on '/'

concat(last(split('MM/dd/yyyy','/')),'-',first(split('MM/dd/yyyy','/')),'-',split('MM/dd/yyyy','/')?[1])

The above expression result should be stored in a variable and then use the same in the expresssion shared earlier to get the integer.

Hope this helps!

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Okay I think I am close, but still keep getting error that time is not in iso 8601 format. This is what I have:

This is used in initialize variable, Presentation Date is pulled from SharePoint.
Excel Date = concat(last(split(variables('Presentation Date'),'/')),'-',first(split(variables('Presentation Date'),'/')),'-',split(variables('Presentation Date'),'/')?[1])

And then this is used to hopefully get the numeric value but keeps failing
add(div(sub(ticks(variables('Excel Date')),ticks('1900–01–01')),864000000000),2)

The date I'm testing is May 4th, 2020, so it should return a result of 43955.

Let me know what I should change, thanks!

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I got it to work. I had to retype '1900-01-01' on my computer.

So the full solution is first use initialize variable like this

concat(last(split(<insert date>,'/')),'-',first(split(<insert date>,'/')),'-',split(<insert date>,'/')?[1])

then put this variable into this expression where you want to use it
add(div(sub(ticks(<insert above date>),ticks('1900-01-01')),864000000000),2)

And you may have to retype '1900-01-01' on your computer as the copying and pasting did not work.

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I finally got the answer and I feel happy now to explain. I struggled a lot to convert from normal date (yyyy-MM-dd) to a integer date.

Step 1:
Get the desired date you want to convert into 'yyy-MM-dd' format.
I was working with current_date. So, I created a string variable named "current_date" and gave it a value using the expression :
formatDatetimeValue(utcNow(), 'yyyy-MM-dd')
Step 2:
Converting the above string variable into an integral date.
add(div(sub(ticks(<insert_date>),ticks('1900-01-01')),864000000000),2)

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ninjaryder1st 234 on at

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Hi @Anonymous ,

What power automate "actions" did you use to create the date string in step 1 and convert that string in step 2 above?
Was this a pre-existing Dynamic Content action, or an "Expression"?
If it was the f(x) type expression, what 'action' did you place the expression within? Was it "initialize variable" or "compose"?

I'm trying to do this, but having trouble finding the correct action to use for step 1 and 2 you mentioned. Thanks!
I put the dynamic content for my "intake date" into the expression and it throws errors.

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JulianaD 25 on at

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This is great, thanks! I got it to work for me using this formula (I want to store today's date as an integer in my sharepoint list):

add(div(sub(ticks(convertTimeZone(utcNow(),'UTC','Mountain Standard Time','MM/dd/yyyy')),ticks('1900-01-01')),864000000000),2)

Juliana Donkersgoed

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