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KGuyton
Helper II
Helper II

Combining Date columns

I have two date columns.  Specifically, one date column is the "start date" the other is the "end date" both are formatted to display only the time.  I was to combine these columns so that I have one column with both start time and end time so that I can display it within a table or tooltip.

 

example:

 

original columns:

Date_Time_Start: 8:00:00 AM

Date_Time_End 8:30:00 AM

 

New column:

Time: 8:00am-8:30am

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 Hi @KGuyton,

Based on my test, you could refer to below ways:

You could use TIMEVALUE function to fetch the time data, refer to below formula:

Time = CONCATENATE(TIMEVALUE('Table1'[Date_Time_Start]),CONCATENATE("~",TIMEVALUE('Table1'[Date_Time_End])))

Result:

1.PNG

Or you could use the RIGHT function to fetch the time value:

Time2 = CONCATENATE(RIGHT('Table1'[Date_Time_Start],11),CONCATENATE("~",RIGHT('Table1'[Date_Time_End],11)))

Result:

1.PNG

 

You could also download the pbix file to have a view.

 

 

Regards,

Daniel He

 

 

 

Community Support Team _ Daniel He
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Employee
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Hi @KGuyton,

Could you please tell me if your problem has been solved? If it is, could you please mark the helpful replies as Answered?

 

Regards,

Daniel He

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v-danhe-msft
Employee
Employee

Hi @KGuyton,

Based on my test, you could refer to below formula:

Time = CONCATENATE('Table1'[Date_Time_Start],CONCATENATE("~",'Table1'[Date_Time_End]))

Result:

1.PNG

 

Regards,

Daniel He

Community Support Team _ Daniel He
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Now my only issue is that the time start and time end columns were originally in Date/time format so in the new column it is showing me both the dates and times as text, I cannot change the column data type without receiving an error and I cannot change the edit the data because the date is used for a relationship.  How may I further format this new column to hide the dates and only show time?

Hi @KGuyton,

I could not understand the format of your data, you have posted your original data as below:

original columns:

Date_Time_Start: 8:00:00 AM

Date_Time_End 8:30:00 AM

Could you please post what your data look like in your data view?

 

Regards,

Daniel He

Community Support Team _ Daniel He
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I had forgotten that I formatted the data beforehand.  The original data is in the format 'MM/DD/YYYY HH/MM/SS am/pm"  So when using the code given here I get a format of date and time in text.  I am unable to remove the date from the new columUntitled2.png

 Hi @KGuyton,

Based on my test, you could refer to below ways:

You could use TIMEVALUE function to fetch the time data, refer to below formula:

Time = CONCATENATE(TIMEVALUE('Table1'[Date_Time_Start]),CONCATENATE("~",TIMEVALUE('Table1'[Date_Time_End])))

Result:

1.PNG

Or you could use the RIGHT function to fetch the time value:

Time2 = CONCATENATE(RIGHT('Table1'[Date_Time_Start],11),CONCATENATE("~",RIGHT('Table1'[Date_Time_End],11)))

Result:

1.PNG

 

You could also download the pbix file to have a view.

 

 

Regards,

Daniel He

 

 

 

Community Support Team _ Daniel He
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Thank you.

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