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Johanna189
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Unable to format dates correctly (UK Format)

Hi,

 

I have a column in my table to show dates which is currently data type "Text". I want to change it to a date format so that I can sort the column by date correctly.

 

If I change this column data type to "Date" it formats some as UK dates and some as US dates.

 

For example:

 

11/05/2018 changes to 05 November 2018 (incorrect for UK date format)

15/05/2018 changes to 15 May 2018 (correct for UK date format)

 

How can I get them to all show up as UK dates? I have the regional settings set to English.

 

Thanks!

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Johanna189
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I've managed to fix this now thank you. I had to go back into the query editor and choose " Using Locale..." on the date column and set this to UK format as well. 

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Johanna189
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I've managed to fix this now thank you. I had to go back into the query editor and choose " Using Locale..." on the date column and set this to UK format as well. 

Anonymous
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Hi

 

Please select English ( UK) for UK format dates.

 

Date settings.PNG

 

Thanks
Raj

Hi,

 

I do already have this set to English (UK).

 

Thanks.

Anonymous
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Do you want to use FORMAT( date_column, "DD/MM/YYYY") ?

 

Thanks
Raj

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