How to turn a column into a date type if it has 2 different date patterns?

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I have a column that has dates of different types.
Example: 01/15/2020 and 1/15/20

When I try to pass this column to the date type, PowerBi shows rows with an error, because it is unable to convert all the rows in this column to date, due to the difference in the pattern in the dates. How can I work around this problem?

[v-kelly-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Is your issue solved now?

Best Regards,
Kelly

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[Ashish_Mathur]

Hi,

I don't think it is because of date of different format.  I think it is because of the entries which look like dates are not dates at all.  If your systems settings are set to dd/mm/yyyy format, then 1/15/2020 will not be recognised as a date at all.

[NamishB]

Hi @Anonymous : To me this looks like data cleansing/Formatting issue. You might first need to clean and analyse your data

Easy way to do is in Power Query Mode > Select Table > View > Enable Column Distribution, Enable Column Profile and Enable Column Quality

Then you will need to fix any errors with the data. M code will be generated in the backend

Unfortunately there is no other way of automating data cleansing, Not atleast i am aware of.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

-Namish B