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Trouble reading dates from excel file

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Posted on by SR-04030256-0
Absolute beginner here trying to create a flow that sends a birthday greeting email to my students.
I have checked and triple checked that the date of birth column is in actual date format and not saved as text, but power automate still reads them as text string, example shown below:
 
the DOB values in Excel look like this:
How Power Automate is seeing them:
I am not proficient enough to format the array in Power Automate, is there an easy fix to this issue?
Thanks!
SHanna
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    Chriddle 8,708 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    In the Excel connector's "advanced options" set the "Date Time Format" to "ISO 8601".

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