New Bug Encountered:AppSheet seems to be ignoring date format and locale of dates in source data

[Kevin_Burbidge]

Hi folks

Summary:
After many hours of troubleshooting, it seems that AppSheet is ignoring the local and date format of source data when processing data.

Background:
I am building an app which needs to import data from an external system. Several columns in this data are Dates. The Google Sheets underpinning the app areboth set for Locale = Australia. The locale for the source and target tables in AppSheet have Locale = Australia.The Date columns in Google Sheets have formatted as “dd mmm yyyy”.

Problem statement:
I have an Action to read the data from one table, and paste it into another (using “Data: set the values of some solumns in this row”). When the Action reads a date “10 May 2019”, it works fine, and the date in the target table seems to be shown as “10 May 2019”. When it reads a date “21 May 2019”, it throws an “invalid Date” error. If I change the date from “21 May 2019” to “2 May 2019”, the amended date is transferred correctly (but the data is obviously incorrect).

Attempted solutions:
I have tried:

• various date formats in the Google Sheets
• using "TEXT([date field], “dd/mm/yyyy”) in the Action
• changing the Locale settings for the spreadsheets and associated AppSheet tables

Workaround:
I have reverted the schema for the Date fields in both tables to Text type for the time being.

Any suggestions are welcome!

Thanks

[Konrawit13]

I have encountered the similar problem with Thailand Localization.
I have tried import date format from google sheets using column and even tested with 'TODAY()', turned out to be like '3/12/1480'.