5 Ways to Create a Date 📅 in Power Query

In this video I'll share 5 different examples of creating dates in Power Query especially when you don't get a built in date column with your data. Some are easy and the rest are ridiculously easy! Enjoy😁

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0:00 Intro
0:25 Eg 1 - Create Dates with Month Number and Year
2:23 Eg 2 - Create Dates with Month Name and Year
4:03 Eg 3 - Create Dates with Year
4:55 Eg 4 - Create Dates with YYYYMMDD Format
6:15 Eg 5 - Change Date format from MM-DD to DD-MM
8:51 Eg 5 - Continued - Change Date Format
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[cosmee]

Hai Goodly,
I have an issue
In power query editor date column is in format dd-mm-yyyy
But I created in the format of yyyy-mm-dd
Using

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The output is come in yyyy-mm-dd
But I am trying to convert into date data type
This custom column values also changing into dd-mm-yyyy

What should I do now ...
I tried many ways ...
Kindly help

[viveksharma]

Thank you very much, sir, I'm struggling with this concept often .. but the last trick is so cool .. will help a lot in my future assignment.

[michellebrayton]

I have really enjoyed your style of teaching. You are really a master of breaking it down and making it look easy. Thank you for your content. I have learned more in a day of watching your videos then I have in weeks, struggling to learn all that is possible with Power Query. Your explanation of the difference between Excel Power Query and Power BI.... was priceless.... I now know exactly what Power Query in Excel is... Power Pivot etc... Thank you. I am going to sign up for your class on the M language.

[GeertDelmulle]

Very nice! That second trick was quite surprising to me — never would have thought that it would work.
Great video! :-)

[franciscom.paredesarias]

Thank you very much for sharing, Greetings from Chile.

[maryjavasilyevna]

Thank you for detailed explanation, Chandeep!

[eroteam]

Man, what a great video, I was trying it for 30 min haha, you helped me a lot!

[hasnahas]

You saved my day with the second trick, thanks a lot

[wayneedmondson]

Hi Chandeep. Great date tips for Power Query! Love it when you wrap it all up in one statement. Thanks for demonstrating. Thumbs up!!

[wildecorrea]

The last solution was WACKY, man!!! Congratulations on your videos! 💥🦾👊👏👏👏💯🔝

[GJD]

Great video as always - My issue with dates is :
I frequently get an issue with dates in that when the data is loaded to excel, they revert to numbers in the spreadsheet. This is even though the data type is set to date in PQ. Fixed by changing the formatting of the cells in Excel to date, but a data refresh brings back the issue, requiring re-formatting
Why does this happen and how can it be fixed ?- many thanks

[rugshavishnu]

Hi Chandeep,
Could you please advise how to treat null values in the date column?

[helmutwasser]

Hi Chandeep, thank you for your video but in my case, it did not help me. Could you help me with this issue. I have a data import from hundreds of CVS files, and they all look the same. The date does not come as a real date. I am getting for example in the Date Row 45371.49955 and I cannot get that converted to a Date. I checked that in excel and easily got a DateTime --> 20.03.2024 11:59:21

[kppaniraj]

Can we solve a problem where a couple of dates are in Indian format and couple are in American format in the same column and I want only the dates in American format to be converted to Indian Format, Please guide

[Faisal]

Hi is there a formula or PQ way to change any transactions time that come between 12:00:00 AM and 7:59:59 AM To be 8:00:00 AM which is the start of working hour.

[billgillaspey]

The final method, no doubt, looks nice since everything is done in a single step. But it does beg the question: is there a purely technical basis for calling it "better" than doing the transformation using multiple steps? I.e., Could one, perhaps, to measure the speed (or maybe there is a better metric) of "one step" code vs code in several PQ steps? just curious...

[skibsny]

Great video! How did you get the Month from 1 digit to 2 digits? like 1 to 01 ?

[iugaming]

Hi Chandeep,

I watched some of your videos and all are great. I want to ask my dax issue but it is not related to your topic.

Can you tell me what's wrong why I get correct data on 8 but not on 7?

Tickets for 7 days = ID]), FILTER (('Tickets', 'Last Refresh'[Date.Last Refreshed] - 'Tickets' [Created])<=8)))

Please help. Thank you.

[XenArena]

How would you get the date from
Year and Week of the Year
in Power Query?

[MichalTyborski]

Hi!
I have a question from example 2. How to do it in DAX?
I have month (April) and year(2022), how to make from these 2 columns column date(2022-04-01)?