# Converting Missing to Date

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/converting-missing-to-date/71150>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** dataframes\
**Created:** [November 8, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/converting-missing-to-date/71150 "2021-11-08T13:42:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![sijo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sijo)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/converting-missing-to-date/71150/2 "2021-11-08T14:30:17Z")

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Try `df1[!,:col3]=...` This will replace the column with a new vector (of possibly different type) instead of assigning to the existing vector.

If that doesn’t work please include a [MWE](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/please-read-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757).

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