Okay cool, interesting method.
You need a list of months in a table somewhere, eg:
- January
- February
- March
- etc
And then the Month(Date) value to take a Single Value->from Start from that list.
If using that method, you need to adjust the math formula slightly: Month(Date)-1
or just use format date MMMM
I entered manually, in different ways… and my method works all the time… Glide math column is the best
then switch column to a date
Thanks for all the help on this.
Date and time is so temperamental on sheets as well, as long as there is a fool proof way to achieve the desired results i’m happy no matter what method. Maybe they’ll fix the Format Date Plugin sometime🙏
I still encountered issues with your method Darren. The problem is that glide components still don’t seem to regard the formatted time as date/time so it doesn’t give condition options such as “is on or after today” etc.
I tried Uzo’s method and it all works, and i get the date/time options for components. I’m using both methods for further testing
These screenshots show the difference for the components options.
yep, it works great! I’m very impressed with how well… I tried to enter the date in so many different ways as a text… and it figure out! Great job Glide with the math column!
I would recommend that everybody use this technique, for all dates that come from other sources than Glide date picker… even if it looks like everything is ok.
Yes, that’s expected because my method converts the date into a number.
Anyway, it sounds like Uzo’s method is going to work best for your use case. That’s the nice thing about Glide - for any given problem there’s often several different ways to approach a solution. And which is best usually depends on the specific use case.