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Custom Dates Right-click (control-click on Mac) a date field in the Data pane and select Create > Create Custom Date. From the Detail list, select the level you want. Specify whether you want the custom date to be discrete (Date Parts) or continuous (Date Value). Optional: Enter your own name for the field.

To set the default formats, right-click (control-click on Mac) a date or number field and select either Date Format or Number Format on the Default Properties menu. A dialog box opens where you can specify a default format.

In America, the date is formally written in month/day/year form. Thus, ?January 1, 2011? is widely considered to be correct. In formal usage, it is not appropriate to omit the year, or to use a purely numerical form of the date.

You can control these default settings by clicking the drop-down arrow on a field. The Default Properties menu includes default settings for aggregation, comments, number formatting, color, shape, and totals (based on the type of field).

Date/Time Formats FormatDescriptionDD/MMM/YYYYTwo-digit day, separator, three-letter abbreviation of the month, separator, four-digit year (example: 25/JUL/2003)MMM/DD/YYYYThree-letter abbreviation of the month, separator, two-digit day, separator, four-digit year (example: JUL/25/2003)46 more rows

Follow these steps: Select the cells you want to format. Press CTRL+1. In the Format Cells box, click the Number tab. In the Category list, click Date. Under Type, pick a date format. ... If you want to use a date format ing to how another language displays dates, choose the language in Locale (location).

The default Locale is [English(United States)], and the default date format is [mm-dd-yyyy]. Locale.

The Standards Council of Canada also specifies this as the country's date format. The YYYY - MM - DD format is the only officially recommended method of writing a numeric date in Canada. The presence of the DD / MM / YY (most of the world) and MM / DD / YY (American) formats often results in misinterpretation.

Right click your date field in the Dimensions pane and select Create > Calculated Field. In the dialog, write the DATEPARSE function. The DATEPARSE function has two parts: the format and the string. The string is field you wish to convert, which must be a string data type.

To change a field's data type in a view, right-click (control-click on a Mac) the field in the Data pane, choose Change Data Type, and then select the appropriate data type from the drop-down list. Note: Sometimes the data in your database is more precise then Tableau can model.