# Robust date conversion from string to DateTime

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/robust-date-conversion-from-string-to-datetime/87215
**Category:** Data
**Created:** [September 13, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/robust-date-conversion-from-string-to-datetime/87215 "2022-09-13T13:40:55Z")
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#### Post date: [September 13, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/robust-date-conversion-from-string-to-datetime/87215/2 "2022-09-13T14:01:47Z")

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Y-M-D date format is just the default. You can parse a DMY date format as explained in the docs (and I suppose to get out in same format too somehow):

```julia
julia> using Dates
julia> Date("24/9/2020", dateformat"d/m/y")
2020-09-24

```

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