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Best answer

Date format issue from Google spreadsheet to SalesForce

  • May 14, 2025
  • 7 replies
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This is doing my head in!

 

My Google spreadsheet date is 07/06/2006 (DD/MM/YYYY) i.e. 7 June 2006

I want to load this date into SalesForce via a zap.

 

Zaper was loading this date into SalesForce as 06/07/2006 (6 July 2006)

 

  1. If I use the Zapier Formatter with the following perameters

           From format: DD/MM/YYYY (i.e. 7 June 2006 - which is CORRECT)

           To format:  DD/MM/YYYY

           Then Zapier tells me the output format will be 06/07/2006 (6 July 2006 - ie. WRONG) and when I run the Zap it loads the (wrong) July date into SalesForce.

 

  1. If I use the Zapier Formatter with the following perameters (screenshot below)

           From format:  DD/MM/YYYY

           To format:      MM/DD/YYYY (i.e. 6 July 2006 which is wrong)

 

Then Zapier tells me that the output format (screenshot 2 below) will be 07/06/2006 (7 June 2006 i.e. CORRECT) - 

 

but then what loads into SalesForce when I run the Zap is 06/07/2006 (6 July 2006 - which is wrong)

 

Grateful for a fix if anyone can help, thank you.

 

 

Best answer by Troy Tessalone

​@CatsCollege 

NOTE: You can avoid all this by using this GSheet date column format: YYYY-MM-DD

 

The Input Format and From Format differ.

Input Format: D/M/YYYY

From Format: DD/MM/YYYY

 

Also, we would need to see screenshots showing:

  • DATA OUT from the Formatter step
  • how the Salesforce Zap step is configured in EDIT mode for the field that has the variable mapped from the Formatter step

 

 

This post has been closed for comments. Please create a new post if you need help or have a question about this topic.

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Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Troy TessaloneZapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • 34072 replies
  • May 14, 2025

Hi ​@CatsCollege 

Try using this date format: YYYY-MM-DD

Best to use ISO date formats. (info)

 

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Platinum Authorized Zapier Solution Partner | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
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  • CatsCollegeBeginner
  • Author
  • Beginner
  • 3 replies
  • May 15, 2025

Thanks for this. ​@Troy Tessalone, but still not working.😩

 

Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Troy TessaloneZapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • 34072 replies
  • Answer
  • May 15, 2025

​@CatsCollege 

NOTE: You can avoid all this by using this GSheet date column format: YYYY-MM-DD

 

The Input Format and From Format differ.

Input Format: D/M/YYYY

From Format: DD/MM/YYYY

 

Also, we would need to see screenshots showing:

  • DATA OUT from the Formatter step
  • how the Salesforce Zap step is configured in EDIT mode for the field that has the variable mapped from the Formatter step

 

 

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Platinum Authorized Zapier Solution Partner | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
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  • CatsCollegeBeginner
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  • Beginner
  • 3 replies
  • May 15, 2025

​@Troy Tessalone - Thank you!  the formatting of the GSheet and matching data In/Out of the Zapier formatter has now got it working and finally, I have 7th June in SalesForce.  THANK YOU so much!

SamB
Community Manager
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  • SamBCommunity Manager
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  • May 15, 2025

YAY!!! That’s awesome news, ​@CatsCollege! 🎉 So pleased to see Troy was able to help point you in the right direction here—fantastic work as ever, ​@Troy Tessalone! 🙌✨

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  • CatsCollegeBeginner
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  • May 30, 2025

As an addendum to this post and anyone else who may have a similar problem….  I ended up with more date formatting issues on some other GS’s and the above suddenly did not work. Then I discovered that my laptop  system locale  was set to US date/time https://www.ninjaone.com/blog/changing-system-locale-in-windows/

 

and the settings on the GS’s  were also set to US date time. https://support.google.com/appsheet/answer/10106525#google-sheets

Once I changed these to my locale then Troy’s solution worked again.

SamB
Community Manager
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  • SamBCommunity Manager
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  • 9738 replies
  • May 30, 2025

That’s good to know, ​@CatsCollege! Thanks so much for circling back to share this with the Community. 🤗 I’m sure it’ll be super helpful for others running into a similar issue. Thanks again! 🧡

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