Specify different date formats for multiple sources in ETL
I am combining a number of data sources with date columns using an ETL before performing other calculations on them.
Some of the sources have Australian date format (DD/MM/YYYY), and others have US format (MM/DD/YYYY).
The ETL gives me results in YYYY-MM-DD format, where it's actually incorrectly converted some of the dates to YYYY-DD-MM by assuming the wrong input date format. This means I end up with results from the future (eg 2018-12-03).
What's the best way to ensure the ETL always knows the correct input date format?
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Hi. @artywah
Is it possible to avoid by replacing the date that is incorrectly converted by using regex?
Set Column Type
Column : DateColumn
Data Type: Text
Pattern A YYYY-MM-DD (TEXT)
Set Column Type
Column : DateColumn
Data Type: Date
Format : Year first
Pattern B YYYY-DD-MM (TEXT)
Replace Text
Column : DateColumn
Search "Use Regex": ^([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)-([0-9]*)
Replace : $1-$3-$2
Set Column Type
Column : DateColumn
Data Type: Date
Format : Year first0 -
Unfortnately this isn't working. It seems Domo is being too smart and processing the format before I can do anything with it in an ETL.
It seems I need to set the date format as Domo imports the data (before I can perform an ETL on it)
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