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    Date field contains value of 114324 - what is this?

    Received a file with purchase orders and the date field contains values like "114324" or "114303". I have tried formatting the cells, but Short Date turns this into "02-01-2213" or "12-12-2212". Please help...

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    Re: Date field contains value of 114324 - what is this?

    What date are those values 'supposed' to represent? 114324 and 114303 ?

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    Re: Date field contains value of 114324 - what is this?

    114324, when formatted ad date, gives Saturday, January 2, 2213

    all real dates in excel are really just numbers in te background that represent how many days have passed since 1/1/1900
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    Re: Date field contains value of 114324 - what is this?

    Sample attached. Dates are supposed to be dd-mm-yyyy for the period 1 November 2014 - 30 November 2014
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    Re: Date field contains value of 114324 - what is this?

    Yep, indeed those are NOT dates.
    They're just numbers like One Hundred Fourteen Thousand Three Hundred TwentyFour

    What dates are you 'Expecting' those numbers to actually represent?

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    Re: Date field contains value of 114324 - what is this?

    even at half tat value, it still comes out in the year 2056

    where/how did you get this data?

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    Re: Date field contains value of 114324 - what is this?

    The data was provided by my client, extracted via SQL from JD Edwards

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    Re: Date field contains value of 114324 - what is this?

    The only reasonable 'Guess' I can make at what the dates are is as follows.
    114324 and 114303

    Ignore the first character (1)
    2nd and 3rd characters represent the year(14)
    Last 2 characters represent the Day (24th or 03rd)
    Remaining character(s) between Year and Day is the Month.

    So 114324 is March 24th 2014
    And 114303 is March 3rd 2014

    But again, that's a 'Wild' Guess.


    You need to confirm with the Source of the data what dates those numbers are meant to represent...

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    Re: Date field contains value of 114324 - what is this?

    could there have been some error from their side in the submission? They are really not dates at all

    For instance, formatted as general, today is 42 002, which is still 72 322 days short of your 1st "date"

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