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Thursday, August 08, 2013

Why is the Data Loader importing dates incorrectly?


We were trying to upload to an object.Most of the dates uploaded exactly as defined in the CSV file, however others were one day out e.g 2-Jul uploaded as 1-Jul.

While using DataLoader it turns out that the Time Zone setting within data loader has a big impact.

Solution #1:

we changed it to "GMT" all the dates loaded without issue.
We also check the "Use European date format (dd/mm/yyyy)" within Data Loader.

Another option we worked out is specifying these setting in process-conf.xml file.

Solution #2 (for Automating Data Loader)
process-conf.xml
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specified the dates in CSV file as dd/mm/yyyy

Hope it Helps

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