A little doosey Date problem

[mikemcbain]

G;day Magicians

I have a problem that has thwarted me and ChatGPT for 4 hours today?

I am using Excel 365 and I have a csv file on my computer that has dates in Col A with a Header called DATE
I can copy and paste the contents of this file into an xlsm spreadsheet and the date format stays the same ie. 02/04/2013
However if I use a macro or VBA to copy paste or transfer the data the date comes out as 04/02/2023?
And then when I check back to the csv file it has also been changed to that format so I must create it all over again.

Can anyone offer suggestions about what is going on and how to overcome it?
We have tried text to columns, checked the Option settings and numerous other things.

With high hopes

Old Mike.

 

[James006]

Hi,

You should try to Clean your cells in Column A to get rid of spaces and potential invisible characters ...

A good test to check everything is fine is to temporarily format General and make sure you do get Numbers to work with ...

 

[mikemcbain]

Hi,

You should try to Clean your cells in Column A to get rid of spaces and potential invisible characters ...

A good test to check everything is fine is to temporarily format General and make sure you do get Numbers to work with ...

Thank you James good advice but still does not help me to find out why it is occurring?

Mike.

 

[MARK858]

All VBA is in the American date format MM/DD/YYYY. Bring it into VBA as CLng(your cell reference) and output it the same.

If you have already put it in the cells use Text to Columns with the setting MDY then format it as desired

 

[mikemcbain]

All VBA is in the American date format MM/DD/YYYY. Bring it into VBA as CLng(your cell reference) and output it the same.

If you have already put it in the cells use Text to Columns with the setting MDY then format it as desired

Hi Mark

Many thanks that sure sounds like the reason for my problem.

Would you mind elaborating on your term "CLng" I am not VBA competent and I just keep prompting ChatGPT for my VBA.

Mike.

 

[MARK858]

Use it like CLng(CDate(Range("A2").Value))

The code below gives the results in column C of the table for me in the UK (dd/mm/yyyy format) when column A are text dates

Sub xxxx()
A = Range("A1").Value
B = Range("A2").Value
C = CLng(CDate(Range("A1").Value))
D = CLng(CDate(Range("A2").Value))
Range("C1").Value = A
Range("C2").Value = B
Range("C3").Value = C
Range("C4").Value = D
End Sub

Book1 (version 1).xlsb
	A	B	C
1	4/2/2023		02/04/2023
2	11/3/2023		03/11/2023
3			04/02/2023
4			11/03/2023
5
Sheet5

You might get away with just

CDate(Range("A2").Value)

I just keep prompting ChatGPT for my VBA

Not a good idea as it makes some things up better to ask a question on a forum like this one until it gets better

 

[mikemcbain]

Use it like CLng(CDate(Range("A2").Value))

The code below gives the results in column C of the table for me in the UK (dd/mm/yyyy format) when column A are text dates

Sub xxxx()
A = Range("A1").Value
B = Range("A2").Value
C = CLng(CDate(Range("A1").Value))
D = CLng(CDate(Range("A2").Value))
Range("C1").Value = A
Range("C2").Value = B
Range("C3").Value = C
Range("C4").Value = D
End Sub

Book1 (version 1).xlsb
	A	B	C
1	4/2/2023		02/04/2023
2	11/3/2023		03/11/2023
3			04/02/2023
4			11/03/2023
5
Sheet5

You might get away with just

CDate(Range("A2").Value)

Not a good idea as it makes some things up better to ask a question on a forum like this one until it gets better

Hi Mark

Many thanks for that explanation and code.
Perfect for my purposes.
There are some aspects of Excel and other programs that ChatGPT is good at but complicated VBA code is not one of them.
You are correct though I have never ever had a failure asking a question on this Forum.

Best regards

Mike.

 

[MARK858]

You're welcome