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Excel Connector dates extract issue (Change from integer to dates?)

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Hi I am experiencing something weird reading dates from Excel. For the last months I've been reading dates from excel as strings with integer so, given the following table

 

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I get something like this

 

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I then apply a formula like this formatDateTime(addDays('1899-12-30',int(DATE)),'dd/MM/yy') to get it as a Date type.

 

However, I've started to receive today this info as follow

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Therefore the formula above is not working and impacting most of our flows. 

 

Hopefully I'm doing something wrong instead of a change on how the Excel Connector is providing the info (it would have a massive impact!). 

 

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

Many thanks

S

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  • jinivthakkar Profile Picture
    4,187 on at

    try formatting the date as below : 

     

    formatDateTime(outputs('Get_item')?['body/Created'],'yyyy-MM-dd')

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