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datetime 0000-00-00 00:00:00 error

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Posted on by jtanwm 21

Hi i am trying to insert a default datetime of 0000-00-00 00:00:00 if the field is empty but it kept giving me an error. Does power automate allow 0000-00-00 as datetime? 

 

formatDateTime('0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss')

 

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    GeorgiosG 1,013 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Hi @jtanwm ,

     

    point is that you try to format the year 0000, month 00, day 00 to a valid date. But the problem is that there is no day 0 in the calendar, also not for month or year (obviously there was the year 0000 but you know what I mean ;)). 

     

    Therefore I would go for that 

    formatDateTime('0001-01-01 00:00:00', 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm tt')
     
    What I always use as default date time is utcNow(). This reflects the current date and time and is the most common used as default value for date time fields.
     
    formatDateTime(utcNow(), 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm tt')

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