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Date Time horror

So my report has a time field.
However when we bring it to excel it will show in the cell as :
1-1-1970 10:20:04

In webi you will not see 1-1-1970…

How can I make it that the field in the report only shows (exports) the time and not the (wrong) date??


rpinxt (BOB member since 2019-01-23)

How is the time field formatted in WebI? I can format a datetime field as time, export it to Excel and see the correct times, with no dates.


charlie :us: (BOB member since 2002-08-20)

Well the dimension is formatted as a ‘Date Time’.
And in the report it is formatted as a Time.
It is set to ‘8:45 PM’.

I now noticed that when you format it as ‘Default’ is will give 1-1-70.
So somehow this default date is comming in from the Universe?

I only need the time part. But formatting in the report is only masking it.
Exporting to excel will always give you date & time and not only the time.


rpinxt (BOB member since 2019-01-23)