Text to Year gives wrong output

[Anonymous]

So I have some data broken down by Month, Quarter, and Year. I was able to format the Month correctly as a date, but the Year is being tricky. For example: when I make it Date/Time, 2015 turns into 7/7/1905. When I switch to yyyy format, it just shows 1905. How can I get it to recognize 2015 as the correct year?

[BhaveshPatel · Accepted solution]

Hi There,

You should use & operator to create a date column and change the data type to date  and format as yyyy to achieve the results.

Datecolumn = "1/" &"1/" &[Year]

Convert the data type to the date and let me know how it goes or need further help.

[Anonymous]

@BhaveshPatel

Thank you

[CahabaData]

so the Year field needs to be a Number field type, not a Date field type.  that's just the way it is..... or based on the title of your post you can force it to be a text field using the ribbon modeling tab.

am not entirely clear what your goal is - one thought however may be to add another field that is a true date field ....so if your periods are months have an actual date field perhaps using the 1st day of the month.  I just throw that out there as a consideration but not really sure if it helps.....

[Anonymous]

I understand. My goal here is to look at month over month change as far as sales and margin go. I have that figured out by using PREVIOUSMONTH('Table'[Month]), where 'Table'[Month] is formatted as 01-MM-YYYY. Measures work great.

I also want to look at year over year change. Here i tried PREVIOUSYEAR('Table'[Month]), since I knew this has the year in it. This doesn't give me any calculations on my measures. I then figured I'd try to format the Year column as a date and use PREVIOUSYEAR on that, but it can't be formatted.