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itchyeyeballs
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Compare DateTime to Text

Hi All,

 

I'm trying to manually specify a datetime to use in a formula but can't get it to work, I orignially used the datevalue function but have discovered it ignores the time.

 

My measure is

 

=calculate(
	[Measure1],
		Table1[startdate]<="20/02/15 12:00:00"
		,Table1[enddate]>="2016/02/15 12:00:00"
		,Table1[Application_date]<datevalue("2017/02/16")
		,Table1[year] ="17/18"
)

Any idea how I can work around this? Its crusical that the time is used as the records can change several times a day so we need to specify a time down to the second.

 

Any help appreciated

 

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itchyeyeballs
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THnk I answered my own question, I used:

 

<Date(2017,2,16) + Time(12,00,0) which seems to have worked

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itchyeyeballs
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THnk I answered my own question, I used:

 

<Date(2017,2,16) + Time(12,00,0) which seems to have worked

you can always use this as well

 

 

 < DATEVALUE("2017-02-16 12:00:00")

 

 

Not sure if that is any easier for you to create in your code


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@Phil_Seamark

 

That would have been a bit easier and was what I tried initially, however after much headscratching I found a section in the docs that confirmed it ignores the time element (strangely it still throws an error if you input an ilegal time)

Hi @itchyeyeballs,

DATEVALUE(date_text) 

Yes, time information in the date_text argument is ignored according to the official article.

As you have use a workaround to solve this issue, you can accept your reply as solution, this way, other community members would easily find the solution when they get same issues.

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang

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

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