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Date Format From Gmail Gets Day/Year Wrong

  • January 16, 2021
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I’m trying to extract the year from date component of a Gmail message. In the attached screenshot, the date pulled from Gmail is Jan 12, 2020.

Zapier is seeing this as Jan 6, 2022 though. I checked the drop down for the “From Format”, but all the options are some variation of Jan 6, 2022.

Any ideas how I can do this? All I want to do is extract the year from the Gmail date and then use that year in the next step of my Zap.

Thanks!

 

Best answer by Troy TessaloneBest answer by Troy Tessalone

Hi @pfriend33 

Try specifying a From Format in the Formatter step, that ought to correct the issue.

 

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  • EnnesTinkerer
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  • January 16, 2021

Hey @pfriend33,

this seems weird. Did you try testing it with different samples? Is it like this with every sample from gmail mails?

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  • January 16, 2021

Hi @pfriend33 

Try specifying a From Format in the Formatter step, that ought to correct the issue.

 

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  • pfriend33Beginner
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  • January 16, 2021

I setup a custom date format string and it has done the trick. This is the one I used

ddd, D MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss Z

Thanks everyone!

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