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Rapidminer displays certain times wrong after Excel import

felix_wfelix_w Member Posts: 61 Contributor II
edited November 2018 in Help

Dear Rapidminer Community, 

 

it's me again, yet with another problem ;) 

 

This time I am importing data from an Excel into Rapidminer which contains dates in the format dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm. Most of the imports are correct but the software makes one mistake which is crucial for me.

 

Lets say I have a time in my excel: 23.10.2017 00:00 (which is for me midnight), Rapidminer imports this time stamp as: 23.10.2017 12:00AM. Shouldn't it rather be 12:00PM or 00:00AM? I am not a US citizen but I think 12:00 AM is definitely wrong if I want to have the midnight time, right?

 

How can I fix this problem? With a "date to nominal" operator and than somehow convert it again?

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    BalazsBaranyBalazsBarany Administrator, Moderator, Employee, RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert Posts: 955 Unicorn
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    Hi!

     

    This is just an artefact of the time format used by RapidMiner. 

    12:00:00 AM is actually 00:00:00 in 24 hour format. You can easily check this by using Date to Nominal. Your timestamps are correct, they are just displayed in an unusual (to you and me) way. 

     

    I would also prefer if RapidMiner used the ISO time format (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss) for display.

     

    Regards,

    Balázs

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    felix_wfelix_w Member Posts: 61 Contributor II

    Hi Balazs, 

     

    thank you for your fast reply! Ok, this looks really odd to me but at least I can save some time reformating my table ;) 

     

    Regards

    Felix

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