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Issues importing dates via csv

By: Tom Boltwood | Asked: 10/12/2022
Forums › Category: General questions › Issues importing dates via csv
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Tom BoltwoodTom Boltwood asked 2 years ago
I'm trying to import a CSV to create a searchable database. I have for the most part succeeded. However, some dates are imported as 01/01/1970. I thought it might be dates that are older than 5 years as the first entry to have an issue with this date is 23/11/2017. However, there is a start date and an end date for each entry and in this case the end date is 22/05/2023 and has also been imported as 01/01/1970. I then thought it might be that those entries didn't have a value for the previous column, however, that doesn't seem to be the case either. I have checked that the global settings are set to d/m/Y and also checked that the entries are all in this format too. It seems that the earliest date that has imported correctly is 03/01/2018
Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 2 years ago

Is any date with the first two numbers greater than 12 successfully imported?

Tom BoltwoodTom Boltwood replied 2 years ago

Good question, I've checked so many different things, I didn't think to check that…

Tom BoltwoodTom Boltwood replied 2 years ago

I thought it had been cracked! No, there are no days greater than 12 that have been imported. The calendar localisation was set to English, not English/UK. I changed that and re-uploaded and it's still doing it…

Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 2 years ago

Can you upload both the import CSV and the form XML so I can try it myself?

Tom BoltwoodTom Boltwood replied 2 years ago

I've done it now, as shown below, just reformatted to YYYY-MM-DD and it's come in fine.

Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 2 years ago

Gotcha. I got confused thinking your solution didn't work.

Tom BoltwoodTom Boltwood replied 2 years ago

Made an edit as I wrote m/d/Y instead of d/m/Y!

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Tom BoltwoodTom Boltwood answered 2 years ago

Right, it seems as if importing with d/m/Y format doesn't work. I'm guessing it's something to do with strotime() used in the import code. Formatting as YYYY-MM-DD imports okay. Luckily I can change the format in the spreadsheet.

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