Macro or formula on Excel to Standardize dates - vba

I really need help on this. I've been looking for an answer for a LONG time but couldn't find it.
In my work, I need to sort a table on Excel using the date present on every line. The problem is that the spreadsheet I use have different layouts of dates as seen below.
2/13/2017 4:43:02 AM (M/DD/YYYY)
02/11/2017 05:05 (DD/MM/YYYY)
I can't sort it this way because it always read wrongly. What I need to do is to split cells and then concatenate them but this is causing a lot of trouble.
Could you help me check if there's any way to do it automatically, using a macro, or at least using just a formula?

This is happening because the output date you got is in text format, not in date format. Here is the trick to resolve your case to get the output in mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm format. You can change the format to your desired one.
If text date is in A column, then formula is -
=DATE(MID(A3,SEARCH("/",$A3,SEARCH("/",$A3,1)+1)+1,4),LEFT(A3,SEARCH("/",A3,1)-1),MID($A3,SEARCH("/",$A3,1)+1,SEARCH("/",$A3,SEARCH("/",$A3,1)+1)-SEARCH("/",$A3,1)-1))+TIME(HOUR(RIGHT(A3,LEN(A3)-SEARCH(" ",A3,1))),MINUTE(RIGHT(A3,LEN(A3)-SEARCH(" ",A3,1))),SECOND(RIGHT(A3,LEN(A3)-SEARCH(" ",A3,1))))
Hope this helps. Rate if satisfied. :)

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Excel VBA Check Date, Set Date in long format

I am new to VBA. I am trying to learn simple things and I have a specific problem I am trying to figure out. I get the gist of VBA, however actually trying to put the code into place is driving me crazy. Here is what I am trying to do.
I have a date value in cell C2 of 11/24/2015. I want to use VBA to do the following:
a. Check the active cell to see if the value in the cell is a date.
b. If it is not a date, display a message that reads "This is not a date".
c. If it is a date, format the date to display the complete date (day, month, and year) in the long date format.
This seems simple enough. I need to use an If Then Else statement and I have been trying different variations of VBA code to get this to work, with no luck. Can you please help me? Thank you in advance!!
To check if a value is a date, use the IsDate() function. To format a date a particular way, you can use the Format() function. You can find a reference on MSDN. In short, you want to use an expression along the lines of:
Format([date to format], "Long Date")
If you already found these functions and are running into other errors then you should post your code. We cannot debug code that we can't see.

how to multi conditionally sort values using vba

So I'm pulling data from an external source which returns Date strings of the given format: "10/26/2013 9:46:46 AM"
When I sort the data it does not seem to be able to distinguish between AM and PM values so many noonish / 1 AM values are moved towards the bottom. Has anyone dealt with this before / have a solution to make it recognize the AM/PM aspect along with the day and time?
Thanks
It looks like it is sorting this as text. It may depend on how the data is getting pulled through.
If you select one of the cells and press F2 (to edit) then enter to go to the next cell, does this change your data?
In the code that is pulling the data through, you just need to amend it slightly.
Range("D5").value = string
It may change it slightly to maybe 24 hour time depending on your computer settings
I ended up just splitting the date and time using TimeValue() and DateValue() excel functions.I then wrote a macro to do a 3 key sort based on ticker, date, and then time.

Specify date format of a large amount of input data

I have an input spreadsheet that needs to get sorted by date. The current format of the date is in the UK format (dd/mm/yyyy) but I need it in yyyy-mm-dd (actually I don't, I just need to sort it and that format is the most foolproof way of sorting). This all needs to be done in VBA as it's part of a bigger project that allows a bunch of data collation at once. The other problem is that the input sheet can be quite large (150,000+ rows). So, while I could parse through each row of data and change it around to the way I need, this would be horrifically slow and is NOT an option.
Currently I'm using this bit of code to format the date to yyyy-mm-dd:
inputGADRSheet.Columns(7).NumberFormat = "yyyy-mm-dd"
But, Excel outsmarts me and assumes that the date format of the column is originally in the US format (mm/dd/yyyy) which messes everything up and half of the values in the column don't meet that requirement (days above the 12th) so they don't get formatted at all. Is there any way to tell Excel what format the current data is in? That way it won't just assume that it's in the US date format...
Is the solution to change my Excel region to the UK. I assume this could be done using VBA, but it seems risky...
If your data is already in an Excel column, you can't reinterpret the values: Excel date values are (internally) number, 1 representing 1900-01-01. After the data has been (mis-)interpreted by Excel there's no way back.
The question is: Where do you get the input data sheet from? If the dates are entered correctly, reformatting is possible without any problem and does not affect sorting (which depends only on the numeric value of the date). If your data comes from a text file (probably .csv-kind), be sure to read ii as text and use Excel worksheet functions or VBA to interpret the values.

date conversion SQL-VBA

I am getting data from SQL and pasting it to an excel sheet through VBA. The data comes in format
hh:mm:ss and I want excel to realize this is a time variable but that is not the case. Even if I select the pasted area and change format to any time format it doesn't seem to be working. It only works if I manually select a cell modify it slightly and click enter (or F2+enter for each cell) then it moves to a time format is there a way to fix this or is someone familiar with this issue?
How exactly are you getting this data into excel?
You would not happen to have Manual Calculation on would you? Excel will parse hh:mm:ss into a datetime, but it sounds like it is not recalculating after however you import this data.

Same date format over several localizations

Currently im facing issue that troubles me a lot. I hope that somebody could help me out. I work for big company where are both Office 2007 (32bit) and Office 2010 (64 bit) used. Writing macros to be compatibile through whole company was hard task for me (I've never programmed in VBA before - actually this forum helped me a lot). My task is to maintain one big table in shared Excel sheet. There are several macros and several userforms. Now i will decsribe the problem briefly:
Sheet contains two columns with date format (start date and close date). Both values are imported to column form userform's textboxes (commandbutton lunches MsCal -exported to class- which fills those textboxes with date). What I simply need is to have date format as mm/dd/yyyy in both columns in order to perform filtering and other operations. When this values are updated by worker that uses different localization than English U.S. date is entered as dd.mm.yyyy. Thats make proper filtering based on date impossible. I tried to alter formating by:
UserForm1.TextBox10.Value = Format(Calendar1.Value, "mm/dd/yyyy")
but this piece of code misbehave somehow. On some machines it works, on some of them it is not working. And thats what is giving me headache. How should i proceed now? Is there a way to force excel to use same date format in sheet and ignore localization settings in Windows? Employees dont want to change localization to English U.S. because they are either used to their format, or need it for other applications. Is there a way to temporarily change localization only when this sheet opens?
Any advice will be apreciated.
Thanks in Advance
Peter
The best you can do is NEVER transform a date variable into Text.
Internally for excel a date is just a consecutive number (Left from the decimal separator are days and right from the decimal separator are hours). So, for example, the 10th of June 2012, for excel is 41188. This date value is independent of the date format set on your computer.
Now when it comes to represent dates (for humans to visualize) Excel will format this internal value into a String with the format set in your computer. So, for example if you have US date format in your computer, the date 41188 will be formated as 6/10/2012.
The big challenge with dates is to input the date in the correct format. When you input a Date as a string ("6/10/2012") then Excel will interpret it depending on the date format set on your computer. If you have US format, then it will thake the first cypher as month, the second as day and the last as the year. If you have a German format, it will read the first as day, the next as month and the last as year. So, the same input ("6/10/2012") for a US Format Excel will read 10th of june as for a German format Excel will read 6th of Oktober.
In your case, you should NOT format the date inside the Textbox10. For a US format Excel there is no problem, but if you have another date format, where the first cypher is the day instead of the month, you will get the wrong values:
Check this example. User inputs 10th of June in a German format Excel (dd.mm.yyyy)
Calendar1.Value retrieves a date value (41188)
Format(Calendar1.Value, "mm/dd/yyyy") transforms the date value into a string "06/10/2012"
When using the formated date (STRING), Excel will have to interpret what date it is. Because the computer date format is German, it will read Day:06, Month:10, Year:2012. You will be using day 41070 instead of 41188
If Calendar1.Value retrieves a Date variable and you give this date variable into a Date formated column, you will allways get the correct dale in your column and you will be able to filter and sort dates correctly regardless of the date format set inside the Column cells or the format set in the users computer.
Now, in your case, the best would be to assign directly the Calendar1.Value to the required cell. Something like:
ThisworkBook.WorkSheets("Sheet1").Range("C3").Value= Calendar1.Value
You can still asign Calendar1.Value into the TextBox10 for the user to see his selection, but disable the TextBox10 so that the only edit option is the calendar control. And when working with the date, istead of thaking it from the TextBox10, taking it directly from the Calendar1.Value .
If you still need to show the selected value from Calendar1 into a textBox then do NOT format the date in the Textbox. Instead, use:
UserForm1.TextBox10.Value = Cstr(Calendar1.Value)
This way, the user will see the date in the dateformat that he has set in his computer and to which he is used to.
One solution is to not use the date number format but rather only use the custom format for all your cell dates where you specify "mm/dd/yyyy" as the formatting string. However, in my experience, if your computer's regional settings are set to use "mm/dd/yyyy" then if you try make a custom cell formatting with this same string excel will keep as a dater linked to the computer setting so that doesn't help you. The way I worked around this was to change the date format on my computer, then format the cells as custom "mm/dd/yyyy" and save (and then turn your computer's settings back to how they were.) Now even though excel still claims they are date cells, you'll see that changing the settings on your computer doesn't change the value in the cell.
I guess another way is to always have a cell next to your date cell that calls the TEXT function. So if you have a date in A1 then in another cell =TEXT(A1, "mm/dd/yyyy") and only refer to this new cell. But that could make your spread sheet very messy.
I guess the best solution is to just get you IT dept to set every one in the company's date settings to use the same formats.